Student Initiative

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Student Initiative
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• African American men have prostate cancer 2.5
  times higher rate than all other men in the
  United States. Prostate cancer has the largest
  racial disparity for any type of major cancer.

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• PHEN was founded in 2003 to address and
• eliminate this disparity. In continuing with
  education and awareness outreach,

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• PHEN will launch a series of new initiatives at
  its fourth annual African American summit in
  September,2008. The theme for the summit is
  Reaching Men Where they Are.

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• The focus of Reaching Men Where They Are is to
  educate men in their homes. To help implement
  this new inhome outreach initiative, PHEN plans
  to recruit college students.

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• Students will be encourage to use their laptops
  to sit with their fathers , grandfathers, uncles
  or other relatives, over the holidays to
• view PHEN T.V.

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• The goal is to create awareness and knowledge
  with family members about prostate cancer. This
  provides the student
• with a role in educating family members on
  prostate cancer.

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• PHEN online education television (www.phen.com)
  will be used extensively for this broader
  outreach effort, and specifically the in home
  initiative.

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• Launched in 2008, PHEN T. V addresses the unmet
  education and awareness needs of black men. The
  primary objectives of these programs are to
  increase quality of life for men with prostate
  cancer and to save
• lives of all men by educating them about
  early detection.

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• PHEN program is aimed at healthy men, survivors
  and men newly diagnosed and looking for treatment
  options and men and their loved ones facing
  psychological issues
• commonly associated with cancer.

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• PHEN T. V. programs are produced from annual PHEN
  summits and other PHEN meetings. They include
  medical, research experts and survivors with real
  life experiences.

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• PHEN is launching and highlighting the student
  initiative at this 2008 Summit here
• in Washington, D.C. during the Congressional
  Black Caucus Legislative Weekend.

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• The Student Initiative will be maintained as a
  highly visible effort over the 2008 holidays and
  beyond. PHEN will survey and report the findings
  on PHEN website.

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• A pilot study was conducted at a southern African
  American university to rate the PHEN T.V.
• The Study
• Students were given a pre-test on prostate cancer

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• The PHEN T.V. was displayed
• Students were very attentive and listened
• to all presenters

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• A post test was given after the PHEN T.V.
• The Results
• A total of twenty male minority students
• participated.

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• The pre test 50 answered correctly
• The Post test 90 answered correctly
• The results show the need to do a better job
  educating African American men about prostate
  cancer awareness and Knowledge.

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• Another goal for the student initiative is to
  include all four African American nursing schools
  in the state of North Carolina to write a grant
  using PHEN T.V. as a teaching tool.