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C
an a urology
waiting
room
designed to look
more like a locker
room prod men to
get a prostate exam?
The urology depart-
ment at Mount Sinai
Health System is bet-
ting big on it. Mount
Sinai's Man Cave
prostate health and treatment center opened in Midtown Manhattan
in February. With 65-inch wall-mounted TVs tuned to sports program-
ming and signed memorabilia adorning the walls, the Man Cave is
every guy's dream den (there's a free coffee bar, but no adult bever-
ages), but it's not all fun and games.
The Man Cave provides educational resources on prostate health
to encourage men to get screened for prostate cancer, which fewer
than 2 in 100 men between the ages of 40 and 64 bother to do.
According to the American Cancer Society, 1 in 7 men will be diag-
nosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, making it the most com-
mon cancer among men other than skin cancer. The Man Cave
"offers a new way to start a conversation about health issues that
men avoid discussing," says Ash Tewari, MBBS, MCh, chair of
Mount Sinai's department of urology.
— Dan O'Connor
MAN CAVE FOR PROSTATE HEALTH
Urology Waiting Room Resembles Locker Room
• MAN CAVE Mount Sinai Health System's sports-themed prostate resource center for
men looks more like a locker room than a waiting room at a urology clinic.
Man
Cave
Health
Ideas Work
That