The American Cancer Society’s Pinellas County branch canceled an LGBT-focused Relay For Life that was scheduled for March 21, 2010. As described by the event’s organizer, Bobby Poth, American Cancer Society officials “ were worried about how the general public would react to an LGBT-targeted event [and] allowed personal beliefs to play a role in [...]
Here is the latest American Cancer Society Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines press release. Please leave comments about these guidelines, by clicking to comment here Update Reaffirms the Importance of Shared Decision-Making ATLANTA –March 3, 2010 – Newly updated prostate cancer screening guidelines from the American Cancer Society reaffirm the recommendation that men should discuss the [...]
To: The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Re: “Prostate Cancer: New Questions About Screening and Treatment” March 4, 2010 We wish to thank the Committee for allowing us to present four important issues, on behalf of the thousands of men, their loved ones and their families, whom Malecare serves. Founded in 1998, Malecare [...]
Irene Hayes, was denied payment of treatment prescribed by her physician and sued in federal court. Medicare had decided to only pay for the Least Costly Alternative (LCA), a treatment that her physician thought inadequate. As explained in the appellate court’s decision, under that policy, Medicare provides reimbursement for treatments only up to the price [...]
Yesterday, Doug Ulman from the Lance Armstrong Foundation delivered 65,000 signatures, from survivors and supporters of all kinds of cancers on a Peitition. Our Petition to Make Prostate Cancer a National Priority has an amazing 16,000 signatures. The most successful prostate cancer grass roots effort in over ten years! Soon, I will be meeting with [...]
KEYS TO A SUCCESSFUL CONGRESSIONAL VISIT “WHAT TO EXPECT, WHAT TO DO AND NOT DO” 1. Have a message. Know what you want and be prepared to ask. Hill meetings can be quite short so it’s key to get to the point and make your point clear and concisely. 2. Meetings on the Hill can [...]
Twitter's first Prostate Cancer Survivor Chat will be held on Thursday, July 16 from 4-5:30PM Join the discussion with hashtag #pcachat It will be facilitated by Malecare Prostate Cancer Support. Please follow me @prostatenews or http://www.twitter.com/prostatenews to stay in touch on this new event. The worlds first twitter cancer survivor support group was held, today, [...]
Please take a few minutes to help elevate OUR prostate cancer nonprofit, Malecare. Though Malecare is known as our country's leading gay men's cancer support group nonprofit, we are committed to helping ALL men with prostate cancer. Today, please take a minute to help Malecare achieve the recognition that ALL of our volunteers and participants [...]
The following statement about the recent controversy regarding PSA testing was issued this morning by the thirteen organizations , including Malecare A JOINT STATEMENT FROM AMERICA’S PROSTATE CANCER ADVOCACY, EDUCATION, AND SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS Since 1993, when the PLCO trial was started, we have awaited the results of this trial with eager anticipation, as have others. [...]
Over 15,000 people signed our community’s petition to Make Prostate Cancer a National Priority at . We were ready to deliver the petition to the new Secretary of HHS when Mr. Daschle withdrew from consideration. Now, we await the next Secretary and our new appointment to meet him/her. Until then, we continue to collect signatures. [...]
