AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION FOR CANCER COSTS JUST $61.(Local)

Byline: Kathleen Haddad

For just $61, you can be tested for five different forms of cancer at the Albany Medical Center.

It sounds odd to attach a bargain mentality to cancer prevention, but that's part of the logic behind the medical center's male cancer clinic.

The clinic tests for cancers of the testicles, prostate, colon, rectum and skin. All but the last are common male cancers, easily detected for relatively little cost and curable when found early.

As the nation becomes increasingly aware of the need to constrain rising health care expenditures, cost-effective efforts at disease prevention like the cancer clinic have become more prevalent.

"People are starting to realize the only economically reliable thing is disease prevention," …