When it passed the Omnibus appropriations bill for the financial year 2018 at the end of last week, Congress increased funding for prostate cancer research from $80 to $100 million through the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDRMP). … READ MORE …
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Yesterday, President Obama signed into law the 21st Century Cures Act — one of the few pieces of major legislation to get passed into law in the past 12 months with significant support from both political parties here in the US. … READ MORE …
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According to the Report of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations (see p. 273) it is currently proposed that the Prostate Cancer Research Program of the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program will again receive $80 million in funding for the financial year 2014. … READ MORE …
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Yesterday, the U.S. Senate approved legislation that will probably keep funding for the Prostate Cancer Research Program of the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program fully intact for 2013 (subject, of course, to the issue of “sequestration” — otherwise known as “the S word”). However, we need help for 2014! … READ MORE …
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According to information on the Prostate Cancer UK web site and in an article in The Daily Telegraph, Prostate Cancer UK is initiating a new campaign to raise money for prostate cancer research in the UK. … READ MORE …
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Although it has nothing to do with prostate cancer in particular, there is an interesting article in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that assesses how physicians interpret the published results of clinical trials of new drugs — based on the quality of the trials (their “rigor”) and who put up the money to carry the trial out (“funding”). … READ MORE …
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As the annual Defense appropriations cycle starts once again, The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink encourages all you US-based prostate cancer patients and other US-based voters to e-mail your Congressman or Congresswoman and ask them to support prostate cancer research funding through the “Dear Colleague” letter being circulated by Representative Pete King in the House. … READ MORE …
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There is an outstanding article by Lea Goldman in the on-line version of the magazine Marie Clare this month entitled “The big business of breast cancer.” … READ MORE …
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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. … READ MORE …
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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. … READ MORE …
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DoD PCRP stands for the Congressionally mandated Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program — and it is the only US government-sponsored initiative that dedicates funding specifically to prostate cancer research. (Similar DoD cancer programs provide dedicated funding for research into breast, lung, colon, and ovarian cancers.) … READ MORE …
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Some cancer advocates have been asking for years for a clear and annual explanation of how the billions of dollars we have generated for cancer research actually gets used … READ MORE …
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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). … READ MORE …
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Several US-based prostate cancer organizations are working together to seek a major increase in funding for prostate cancer research through the Department of Defence prostate cancer research funding program for financial year 2010.
If you are a US citizen affected by prostate cancer please take action on this initiative! For details, see the appropriate section on our Social Network or the web site of ZERO, or contact either Us TOO or your state prostate cancer advocacy coalition. Action is needed now through March 31.
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