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CAU hosts healthcare forum

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Nov 11, 2013

Clark Atlanta University’s cancer research center will host, “Prostate Cancer in African-American Men: Biology vs. Lifestyle,” a free healthcare town hall 1 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Studio A (lower level), 111 James P. Brawley Drive, S.W.

The forum will feature panelists from the American Cancer Society and other state and national healthcare groups. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, aside from skin cancer.

Information: 404-880-6878; cancerinfo@cau.edu

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