The Global Prostate Cancer Alliance requests your participation in a United Kingdom focused project regarding Prostate Cancer killing Black men at twice the rate as it does White descent. We want to understand how Black men in the UK manage their disease while facing this massive disparity. First are telephone interviews with Black men diagnosed with prostate cancer [...]
Believe it or not, in this week approaching Thanksgiving, we in the United States are faced with a second challenge to Prostate Cancer screening using the PSA test. Malecare wants you to know. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is asking for pubic comment on a clinical quality measure that would probably [...]
Malecare sent questions to Albert Siu, MD, Chairperson of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force about plans to review their 2012 recommendation against the use of the PSA test for prostate cancer screening. We thought that this information would be important since the USPTF is currently soliciting public comments on the research design of their review [...]
Malecare and the University of Minnesota are well on the way to making the Restore study, the largest and most comprehensive survey of gay and bisexual men with prostate cancer ever conducted. The Restore study is funded by the National Cancer Institute at NIH and is now recruiting men to complete their survey. You can [...]
The Prostate Cancer Patient Action Leadership Council will meet in late October to plan advocacy events and activities for 2016. You are invited to join. Please sign up at: http://malecare.org/about/survivor-family-friends-advisory-board/
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced a new trial to evaluate genetic similarities in a variety of cancer types. I think that this is a great trial, which those of us who might qualify for it should think about participating. Increasingly we are thinking that to define (name) a cancer just upon the affected body [...]
My Prostate Cancer Experience is a new survey, helping us understand how prostate cancer treatment affects day to day living. The Prostate Cancer Experience encompasses all of the prostate cancer treatments that you may have chosen. The survey closes in a few days, so please complete it, now. Go to http://prostatecancersurvey.org My Prostate Cancer Experience takes less [...]
Click Here to Take the Prostate Cancer Experience The Prostate Cancer Experience study at will help us understand the truth of how prostate cancer treatment affects day to day living. There are many different kinds of treatments, different stages of disease and different sequences of treatment choice making. The Prostate Cancer Experience encompasses all of [...]
Again and again and again Senator McCain (R-AZ) has attacked the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), which for PROSTATE CANCER has been among the most productive research vehicles we have to conquer PROSTATE CANCER. It is beyond my understanding why he has taken up this vendetta. Every year he is our biggest enemy, trying [...]
With CDMRP funding preserved, please keep your advocacy up for restoration of Prostate Cancer activities funding in the CDC. Go to http://malecare.org/cdc President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget eliminates all funding for the Centers for Disease Control prostate cancer program. Congress has the power to protect the CDC Prostate Cancer program. We ask for your advocacy to protect this [...]
