There is life after YANA … and Terry … you deserve it!

Terry Herbert — the founder and organizer of the YANA web site — has announced that he will be closing down the Experiences section of YANA at some time in the near future. After coordinating the YANA site for most of the past 15 years, Terry has (appropriately) decided it is time for him to [...]

The 2011 Summit to End Prostate Cancer In Washington, DC

Prostate Cancer International and other members of the Prostate Cancer Roundtable are planning to attend and support the ZERO Summit Against Prostate Cancer in Washington, DC, on September 20 to 22 this year, and we encourage all prostate cancer patients, family members, advocates, and others to try and join us in making this a major [...]

Write your Congressman or woman: protect funding for the PCRP

Please take just 5 minutes to write your Congressman or Congresswoman and ask him or her to continue to support and protect funding for the Department of Defense’s Prostate Cancer Research Program (PCRP). We need your help before May 12. Just click on the link above to use the ZERO CapWiz program.

Prostate Cancer Roundtable gets web site up and running

It has taken a while to get there but the Prostate Cancer Roundtable finally has its own web site up and running. This will make it a good deal easier for people to keep up to date with the shared advocacy agenda and related activities of the major, US-based, patient-centric prostate cancer organizations.

It’s time to badger Congress — yet again, pretty please!

Many readers will already have seen the report we posted about Senator McCain’s desire to eliminate the Prostate Cancer Research Program within the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) — one of the most successful prostate cancer research initiatives. Now you can work with the rest of the advocacy community to counter this.

An important week for prostate cancer in Washington, DC

Over the next few days, hundreds of prostate cancer patients, advocates, and researchers will be gathering in DC for a series of events focused on progress against prostate cancer. And there is a shared five-point plan of action to take to Congress and the White House.

As Us TOO International turns 20

In early 1990, Dr. Gerry Chodak — a well-known Chicago-based urologist and then professor of urology at The University of Chicago — wrote a letter to his prostate cancer patients. He said that some of them were interested in starting a prostate cancer support group. From such small beginnings …

Us TOO celebrates 20th birthday in August

Us TOO International — one of the two oldest prostate cancer advocacy and support organizations in the world — will be celebrating its 20th birthday with a major event in Chicago on August 20 and 21 this year, and everyone is invited!

The African-American prostate cancer epidemic

Senator John Kerry and radio personality Don Imus, both of whom are prostate cancer survivors, joined America’s Prostate Cancer Organizations on Sunday in support of greater emphasis on prostate cancer education and awareness in the African American community, despite a humorous admission that they don’t usually have a lot in common.

“Remark all … warts:” An entirely personal opinion about risk and prostate cancer

Over the past two weeks, I have read, watched, or listened to nearly every piece I could find on reactions to the two screening articles that appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. I have also watched, monitored, and participated in  many resulting discussions within and outside the prostate cancer community. As a consequence, [...]

Media coverage to delight the activist

The UK prostate cancer advocacy community appears to have scored a major “hit” with an article in the MailOnline on Monday entitled, “What EVERY man (and his wife) should know about prostate cancer.” If you have a spare 3 minutes, The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink suggests you leave a brief comment at the bottom of this [...]

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