Safeway Teams with CaP CURE and National Prostate Cancer Coalition to Raise Awareness and Money.News Editors/Health/Medical Writers PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2003 Safeway (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SWY) and two prominent prostate cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. charities have joined together to offer free prostate cancer screenings to men in two major Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern metropolitan areas. On Thursday, June 26 in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and on Friday, June 27 in West Sacramento, the National Prostate Cancer Coalition's (NPCC NPCC National Prostate Cancer Coalition NPCC Northeast Power Coordinating Council NPCC National Park Community College (Hot Springs, AR) NPCC National Petroleum Construction Company (Abu Dhabi, UAE) ) mobile screening clinic will be located at Safeway store parking lots in neighborhoods that have been identified as being underserved by preventive healthcare. The mobile screening tour is part of Safeway's annual CaP CURE prostate cancer fundraising drive that runs through July 6 in all of the company's North America stores. CaP CURE is a non-profit public charity dedicated to finding cures and controls for prostate cancer. "This will be our third year raising money for CaP CURE," said Alexander Winslow, Director of Public Affairs for Safeway Northern California. "Our goals as a company are to collect $2 million during our five-week fundraiser and to raise public awareness about prostate cancer, which is the second-leading cause of death among men, according to experts at CaP CURE." The mobile screening unit will be open to the public for free confidential prostate cancer screening from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The unit is staffed by local licensed physicians who conduct a two-part screening procedure, which includes a Prostate Cancer Specific Antigen (PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. ) blood test and a physical examination. The screenings are conducted in a 39-foot Airstream Land Yacht XL specifically designed for prostate cancer screening. According to the NPCC every male over 50, or younger if African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. or with a family history of the disease, should be screened annually for prostate cancer. Date Time Location City Thurs. 10:30am-6:30 pm Safeway San Francisco 06/26/03 1335 Webster St ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri. 10:30am-6:30 pm Safeway West Sacramento 06/27/03 1298 W. Capital Ave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About Safeway: Safeway Inc. is a Fortune 50 company and one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America based on sales. The Company operates 1,695 stores in the United States and western Canada, and had annual sales of $32.4 billion from continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the in 2002. The Company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol SWY. About the National Prostate Cancer Coalition: The National Prostate Cancer Coalition, founded in 1996, is the largest advocacy organization dedicated to ending the devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. impact of prostate cancer on men, families and society. Its goals are to increase awareness by educating the public about the disease, outreach to at-risk communities by conducting free screenings for prostate cancer, and engage citizens and associations in an effort to build an advocacy network to encourage increases in federal spending of prostate cancer research. About CaP CURE: CaP CURE, the Association for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostate, is a non-profit public charity dedicated to finding cures and controls for prostate cancer. Founded in 1993, CaP CURE rapidly identifies and funds promising prostate cancer research, attracts leading scientists to the field, raises public awareness and fosters collaboration among physicians and scientists working on a cure for prostate cancer. CaP CURE is also the largest source of private funding for prostate cancer research. |
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