Your Next Mission® Season #6 EP 66 | Veterans Face 2x Prostate Cancer Risk: How the VA is Changing the Game | Dr. Jason Vassy

September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and on this vital episode of Your Next Mission^® video podcast , host 12th SMA (R) Jack L. Tilley sits down with Dr. Jason Vassy, MD, MPH, MS. Dr. Vassy is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Clinician-Investigator at the VA Boston Healthcare System and  Director of the VA’s Genomes2Veterans Research Program.

Did you know that Military Veterans face twice the risk of prostate cancer compared to civilians? With 15,000 new diagnoses in the VA every year and 400,000 Veterans currently receiving care, prostate cancer accounts for 30% of all new VA cancer diagnoses.

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Your Next Mission® Season #6 EP 66 | Veterans Face 2x Prostate Cancer Risk: How the VA is Changing the Game | Dr. Jason Vassy

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