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Chris Hellman, organizer of Plaid for Dad, is getting ready for this year's golf tournament in support of Prostate Cancer Canada. The tournament is being held at Connaught Golf Club on June 19.--NEWS PHOTO EMMA BENNETT Chris Hellman, organizer of Plaid for Dad, is getting ready for this year's golf tournament in support of Prostate Cancer Canada. The tournament is being held at Connaught Golf Club on June 19.--NEWS PHOTO EMMA BENNETT

Medicine Hat News

Plaid for Dad is an initiative to raise awareness of prostate cancer and the importance of regular medical tests to determine PSA levels because there are no symptoms of prostate cancer to warn you.

Plaid for Dad day is June 16, the Friday before Father’s Day.

A Plaid for Dad golf tournament will take place June 19 at Connaught Golf and Country Club.

In Medicine Hat on Monday morning, a father and son team — James Steed and his father who is a prostate cancer survivor from Ontario — made a stop at city hall to promote Plaid for Dad.

One in every eight Canadian men will have to deal with prostate cancer. In Canada there are 4,000 deaths each year related to prostate cancer, making research vital and the reason Plaid for Dad was founded in 2015 by Prostate Cancer Canada.

You can get your workplace registered to participate and/or personally host a Plaid for Dad barbecue to raise funds.

Funds raised help to fund research. In 2016, more than 600 workplaces and thousands of workers supported the initiative with donations and fundraising events.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among men. More than 21,000 new cases will be diagnosed this year and about 4,000 men will succumb to the disease. If detected early, about 90 per cent of prostate cancer cases are treatable.

Visit http://www.plaidfordad.ca to register your workplace and register your family barbecue party. There are all sorts of prizes too.