Research dollars have been an issue that advocates have worked for many years and now researchers are entering the process. From an article in the Baltimore Sun. With their efforts to win more government funding stymied in Washington, medical researchers at the Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere are taking their lobbying campaign on the road [...]
Reel Lives: The Cancer Chronicles Film Festival is an international documentary film competition organized by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC). The festival is an opportunity for people who have been touched by cancer to tell their story through the medium of film and to have their voices heard. It seeks to shatter the taboos [...]
The New York Times recently reported that the Veterans Administration (VA) is no longer releasing cancer statistics to the cancer registries without additional limitations. This means that cancers, especially prostate cancer will be underreported. Each state has been negotiating agreements with the VA and some states have found it impossible to comply with the VA [...]
Members of the Winston-Salem Urban League and the local branch of the Nation of Islam held a local version of the Prostate Cancer Walk for Life, an annual walk designed to raise awareness of the need for prostate-cancer treatment......The two groups held the walk, the first in the city, to coincide with yesterday’s Louis Farrakhan [...]
PHEN LAUNCHES A NATIONAL RALLY AGAINST PROSTATE CANCER On Saturday, September 8th, PHEN launched its national "Rally Against Prostate Cancer" in Boston. The National African American RV Association (NAARVA) is partnering with PHEN across the country for the rally. In Boston the Mattapan Community Health Center's (MCHC) "11th Annual Health Care Revival" was the main [...]