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It appears that research funding of $80 million will again be directed for use to study prostate cancer through the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (DoD CDMRP) for the financial year 2012. This is a big and important “win” for prostate cancer research during a time of fiscal constraint.
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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.
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So the question any smart prostate cancer patient should ask himself — especially if he has any degree of good scientific education — is, “How do I get myself invited to the next IMPaCT meeting?”
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Most medical-scientific meetings that deal (at least in part) with prostate cancer are inhabited by academic scientists, clinicians, and various types of representative of commercial companies.
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Senator John McCain is a man who has been treated successfully not once, not twice, but three times for malignant melanoma.
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The Appropriations Defense subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives is to convene a hearing tomorrow (May 20, 2010), featuring public testimony regarding prostate cancer research within the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP).
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