This study is important in Manton bill discussions with your legislators. Please share this article with your senators and congressperson and ask them to support this important legislation. For more information about the bill: The American Cancer Society (ACS) reported this week that Medicaid and uninsured cancer patients are far more likely to be diagnosed [...]
The New Year is here. This year if everyone makes a resolution to do one advocacy activity each month then the prostate cancer community will be a force to reckon with in 2008. For January you can learn about the proposed Manton Legislation. You can write to your legislators and ask them to join the [...]
One way that prostate cancer advocates can make a major difference in the disease is to get involved with the research process as a research advocate. How do you do that effectively? Nancy Roach, the president and chair of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition recently wrote an article for CR magazine that will give you tips [...]
The Intercultural Cancer Council will be holding their biannual meeting in Washington, DC, April 3-6, 2008 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Col. James Williams, a prostate cancer advocate says: Join us at this unique forum bringing together cancer survivors, community-based organizations, medical researchers, students, federal regulators, and industry representatives. Together, we will share ideas, resources [...]
Sometimes prostate cancer advocates feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of the charities, we "don't get no respect." It seems as if we have to fight for everything from approval of screenings to funding for research. Everyone knows what the red or pink ribbons mean but how many know about the blue ribbon? Because we have [...]