According to the American Cancer Society 28,000 men will die in 2008 from prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer incidence rates are comparable to Breast Cancer rates. Yet, federal funding is significantly higher for Breast Cancer research than for Prostate Cancer. In 2008, there will be virtually the same number of new cases of Prostate Cancer (186,320) [...]
Senator Hillary Clinton announced that she wants to increase breast cancer research funding by $300 million if elected president. Her campaign has said that finding a cure would be a top priority in her domestic policy. Catherine Brown, Clinton’s domestic policy director, said the extra funding would go toward researching a cure, discovering the causes [...]
The following was posted on: http://kittywampus.blogspot.com I have decided to reprint the post, with the author’s permission in its entirety. The author, Dr Patty Stokes (Sungold) is an instructor in Women’s Studies at Ohio University. - Petitioning against Prostate Cancer Most Americans probably know that the women among them face a 1 in 6 lifetime [...]
In the United Kingdom cancer patients who are terminal have the opportunity to take experimental drugs long before they would be allowed to in the United States. The UK Department of Health has authorized a network of 19 hospitals where patients who have no other hope of a cure can agree to take drugs which [...]
Increasingly, it seems as if I am hearing more and more about much younger guys being diagnosed. I don’t mean men who have a little bump in PSA and having gleason scores of six or less. I am talking about men who on diagnosis have prostate cancer that has left the capsule and already have [...]
It has been said that there is more research going on today then there was ten years ago, but that does not mean that it is enough. Much of our prostate cancer treatments have actually come out breast cancer research. Funding for prostate cancer is out of whack and so out available treatments remain very [...]
The National Coalition for Cancer Advocacy recently sent out an email asking advocates to contact their representatives at their district office while they are on their spring break from March 15 – March 30. Specifically, they are asking you (and I am begging you) to request your representative to get behind H.R. 1078, the Comprehensive [...]
Today’s New York Times, in the Sunday opinion section, there was an editorial about the economic problems facing academic research institutions and their young researchers. The problems they are facing is a direct result of the flat budget that The National Institute of Health (NIH) has been given over the last five years. The rate [...]
Prostatecancerpetition.org is Malecare's initiative to gather over one hundred thousand names in support of making a cure for prostate cancer into a national priority. Below is the petition. If you agree, please go to and sign on. Our ten month petition drive launches today, March 14, 2008.....you are the first to know and are offered [...]
Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) today offered an amendment on the Senate floor to increase NIH funding by an additional $2.1 Billion. The increased funding in the FY09 Congressional Budget Resolution will establish a blueprint for the Senate to dramatically increase funding for cancer research and programs during the appropriations process later [...]
