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UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc. Sponsors Doctors Care Record-breaking Drive Against Prostate Cancer

Monday, November 12, 2007 General News
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COLUMBIA, S.C., Nov. 12 What does a thirty-ninefoot Airstream Land Yacht have to do with reducing death from prostate cancer?For more than 800 midlands' men last month, it was a quick and easy way toassess their risk for the disease.
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The Drive Against Prostate Cancer is the only national mobile screeningand education program for prostate cancer. Doctors Care and WIS-TV sponsoredThe Drive in the midlands and exceeded all expectations by breaking thenational daily screening record of 375 with 458 screenings. Over the two daysof the event, Doctors Care completed 808 screenings.
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According to Dr. Michael Stout, UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc. President andCEO, "More men die from prostate cancer than any other cancer with theexception of lung cancer. Doctors Care was pleased to bring The Drive AgainstProstate Cancer to the midlands in partnership with WIS-TV. Every man over 50should have an annual screening."

Additional Information:

Doctors Care is a division of UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc. UCI MedicalAffiliates, Inc. ("UCI") is a Delaware corporation incorporated on August 25,1982. Operating through its wholly-owned subsidiary, UCI Medical Affiliatesof South Carolina, Inc. ("UCI-SC"), UCI provides non-medical management andadministrative services for a network of 59 freestanding medical centers, 58of which are located throughout South Carolina and one is located inKnoxville, Tennessee (37 operating as Doctors Care in South Carolina, one asDoctors Care in Knoxville, Tennessee, 18 as Progressive Physical TherapyServices in South Carolina, one as Luberoff Pediatrics in South Carolina, oneas Carolina Orthopedic & Sports Medicine in South Carolina, and one as DoctorsWellness Center).For Information Contact: Jerry F. Wells, Jr., CPA Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc. 4416 Forest Drive, 2nd Floor Columbia, South Carolina 29206 803-782-4278, ext. 128 [email protected]

SOURCE UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc.
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