speaking on men's health

According to the Centers for Disease Control, after skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer among men in the US, and it is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer related death among men.   An estimated 29,000 American men lose their lives to prostate cancer each year.
 
In this seminar Dr. Max Gomez will being with a primer on the prostate, since most men (and women too) know little about the prostate. Early detection, treatment alternatives and finally what men and their significant others can do to maintain prostate health and prevent prostate cancer through some simple lifestyle, dietary and supplement changes.
 
70% of our health whether we get cancer or a heart attack, how long we live, develop diabetes etc. is actually in our hands. We can do something about it.Dr. Max Gomez will discuss taking the proactive approach in terms of prevention and positive action.
 

Dr. Max Gomez joined News Channel 4 in 1997, as the station's Health and Science Editor. His medical and health reports appear live Monday through Friday on Live at Five, and he also contributes medical segments to the station's various newscasts.

The recipient of numerous journalism awards, Dr. Max Gomez has received four New York Emmy Awards, two Philadelphia Emmys, an UPI honor for Best Documentary. for a 1986 report on AIDS and an Excellence in Time of Crisis awarded for New York City after September. 11.  . He was named the American Health Foundation Man of the Year and was a NASA Journalist - in - Space semi-finalist in 1986.
 
Dr. Max Gomez, a native of Havana, Cuba, is bilingual in spanish/english and graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1973.  He received a Ph.D. from Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 1978 and was a N.I.H. Postdoctoral Fellow at New York's Rockefeller University (78-80).

 

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