Cruisin' for a Cure combines cool cars and prostate cancer screenings

The annual Cruisin' for a Cure event is back with classic cars cruising into and around the fairgrounds, and the 'cure' part is drawing attention to prostate cancer.

The annual Cruisin' for a Cure event is back with classic cars cruising into and around the fairgrounds, and the "cure" part is drawing attention to prostate cancer.is back with classic and custom cars cruising into and around the fairgrounds."We have tested well over 15,000 men, and saved over 6,000 men that had no idea that they had prostate cancer," said Debbie Baker, who co-founded the show back in 1999.

"I was in a weird situation where only one of my five samples they took came back as cancerous, but my doctor said it was so aggressive that if I'd waited for a symptom, he'd be fighting to save my life," said Carson Lev, who had his cancer detected by blood test 20 years ago. If you go to any kind of a classic car show, you'll notice that a lot of the people there are men over the age of 40, and that's the group that needs to get tested for prostate cancer. It's a bit of a captive audience - guys hanging around most of the day at the show anyway.

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