Senator Barbara Boxer Introduces Cancer-Related Legislation Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has introduced two bills to improve research on prostate cancer and ovarian cancer. S. 756, the "Prostate Research, Imaging, and Men's Education Act (PRIME)" provides for prostate cancer imaging research and education. The reintroduced, S.755 Ovarian Cancer Biomarker Research Act is legislation to develop new [...]
Today I posted the following on the ACOR Prostate listserv. It was in response to a series of emails that complained 1- That the organizations representing the prostate cancer community were at odds with each other and that there are too many prostate organizations. 2- That the prostate cancer community is disorganized and unable to [...]
Senators Kennedy and Hutchison introduced their long anticipated cancer bill yesterday. In summary, the bill states that: 1- Despite all the knowledge we have gained about cancer over the years, including early detection and screening, the actual decline in cancer mortality rate is only 6 percent as compared to a decline in mortality rate from [...]
If I hear it one more time I am going to tear my hair out. What do you mean that prostate cancer is not fatal, prostate cancer is the second largest cancer killer after only lung cancer. TARA PARKER-POPE wrote in yesterdays New York Times a health article, "Screen or Not? What Those Prostate Studies [...]
The following statement about the recent controversy regarding PSA esting was issued this morning by the thirteen organizations, including Malecare (the sponsor of this blog), listed at the bottom of the statement: A JOINT STATEMENT FROM AMERICA’S PROSTATE CANCER ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, AND SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS Since 1993, when the PLCO trial was started, we have awaited [...]