The US Congress has just published the proposed Omnibus Budget for 2016. The good news is that the proposed budget includes the restoration of the 13.2 million dollars to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for Prostate Cancer Prevention and Education and it also includes 80 million dollars for the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer [...]
The line item for FY 2016 CDC prostate cancer funding of $13,205,000 is restored in both the House and Senate appropriations bills, as authored by their committees. Thanks to the several thousand of you who responded to Malecare's call to action and wrote emails and letters to the Congressional House and Senate Budget Committee. Since both [...]
From the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Watch out for fever. If you get a fever during your chemotherapy treatment, it’s a medical emergency. […]
Shocking news, under the President Obama's latest budget request, the prostate cancer program at CDC would receive only a 0.23% increase. The FDA would receive an appropriation of $2.35 billion, an increase of $295 million (14.4%), once again prostate cancer has been left in the dust! Joel T Nowak MA, MSW
