Movember

[natetreat]

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Growing a stache for Movember. To support men's health and all of that stuff! Not just because mustaches are cool. If you can't donate, grow one of your own and support the cause!

Men's health is a cause I am passionate about but in order to make a difference I need your help. My commitment is to grow a moustache for the month of November and by changing my appearance, raise vital awareness and funds for men's health, specifically prostate and testicular cancer initiatives.
I am asking you to help support my personal journey by making a donation. The size of the donation isn't important, every little bit helps Movember continue its funding of world-class programs.
To highlight the importance of what I am doing, take a look at these statistics:
• 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime
• This year 242,000 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed
• This year 8,290 men will be diagnosed with testicular cancer
If you'd like to help change these statistics, please donate to me by:
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*Writing a check payable to 'Movember', referencing my Registration ID: 5882593 and mailing it to: Movember, PO Box 2726, Venice CA 90294-2726
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Thank you in advance for supporting my efforts to change the face of men's health.
Nate Treat Fishing
Movember is a registered 501 (c)(3) charity, donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

[Mike Carey]

Nate, as a prostate cancer survivor I thank you.

In case people didn't know, prostate screening was looked at by The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and they advised that men not be screened for prostate cancer until symptomatic. (kind of like closing the gate after the chickens get out). Fortunately, at this time Medicare has decided to continue to pay for prostate screening. However, it may come to pass that insurance companies could use the panel's findings to no longer cover PSAs and also if cancer is found to not cover treatment. (worst case scenario). IMO, the panel was looking at the issue in a very statistical manner, at prostate diagnosis vrs. long term survival rates and totally disregarding that there are some prostate cancers that do grow fast and metastisize. These are the men that will die earlier. If it ever came to pass that prostate cancer was no longer screened/treated they are the ones that will pay the price with their lives.

So again, thanks for growing some facial hair for the cause and I hope many here will support you.

[oneshot]

very worthy cause for the stache.. I donated to a friends team on monday.. i'll be trimming up soon too

[Bodofish]

Nate, as a prostate cancer survivor I thank you.

In case people didn't know, prostate screening was looked at by The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and they advised that men not be screened for prostate cancer until symptomatic. (kind of like closing the gate after the chickens get out). Fortunately, at this time Medicare has decided to continue to pay for prostate screening. However, it may come to pass that insurance companies could use the panel's findings to no longer cover PSAs and also if cancer is found to not cover treatment. (worst case scenario). IMO, the panel was looking at the issue in a very statistical manner, at prostate diagnosis vrs. long term survival rates and totally disregarding that there are some prostate cancers that do grow fast and metastisize. These are the men that will die earlier. If it ever came to pass that prostate cancer was no longer screened/treated they are the ones that will pay the price with their lives.

So again, thanks for growing some facial hair for the cause and I hope many here will support you.

Yeah, really bad program, when I was building med devices, one of them was a prostate irradiator. The statistics are really quite unbelievable. As we get older the rate of occurrence goes up almost exponentially. When we hit 80 it's just shy of 100%, it's not an if it's a when. Awful glad you made it through it as my dad did a few years ago. Not out of the woods yet, 80 is still coming and I don't plan on rolling over just yet.

[Mike Carey]

Unfortunately, the 2010 Affordable Care Act (AKA Obama Care), stipulates that services receiving a rating of C or D by USPSTF should not be covered by insurance plans. Only those rated A and B should be covered. Prostate screening was rated a "D" by USPSTF. Meaning that this certainly has the potential to no longer be covered down the road. In the years to come I predict we will see more and more health maintenance aspects of our health care in America be lost as a way to save money. The USPSTF is the "Death Panels" which we were told did not exist. The USPSTF has also recommended decreasing routine mammograms and no longer having women get annual PAP smears.

We live in interesting times, and I'm at risk of hyjacking Nate's thread. Be sure to support Nate in this worthy cause that is so important to men's health.

[natetreat]

Unfortunately, the 2010 Affordable Care Act (AKA Obama Care), stipulates that services receiving a rating of C or D by USPSTF should not be covered by insurance plans. Only those rated A and B should be covered. Prostate screening was rated a "D" by USPSTF. Meaning that this certainly has the potential to no longer be covered down the road. In the years to come I predict we will see more and more health maintenance aspects of our health care in America be lost as a way to save money. The USPSTF is the "Death Panels" which we were told did not exist. The USPSTF has also recommended decreasing routine mammograms and no longer having women get annual PAP smears.

We live in interesting times, and I'm at risk of hyjacking Nate's thread. Be sure to support Nate in this worthy cause that is so important to men's health.

It's all good! That's why we're doing this stuff, because until you've been affected by it or someone close to you has, it doesn't really ever come up like this. Hence the stash! Gets people thinking about something. Boobs get a lot of attention (for good reason ), lots of pink things and whatnot, but even I didn't know about the affordable health care act information. I had heard about the death panels though.