WHY ARE THERE NO EVENTS FOR PROSTATE CANCER LIKE BREAST CANCER(walk or runs)

steckley said:

Events that may be what you are looking for
Hi Preston,

The following link takes you to USToo's Chapter News. You might find some of these events interesting ... and maybe there is a USToo chapter in your hometown. Hope this is what you were looking for.

Bob

http://www.ustooevents.org/site/R?i=HL8ikm1YXSfOkf9e6AjUgA..

GBN said:

Prostate Cancer Walk
I would love to create a prostate cancer walk and to have this trend taken nationwide.
My father died of prostate cancer two years ago, and I have noticed that there is very little said about men's health in general.

If we can create awareness, then men will no longer be too afraid or ashamed to mention their prostate gland, and maybe we can get them to understand the need to be tested at an early age, for early detection, as you have done.

Prostate cancer, when caught early is 98% curable. It is unnecessary to die of this disease in this time of advanced medicine. However, men often do not look into their health because either they are too ashamed or afraid, and I feel that encouragement from other men, like a coalition on men's health, would provide the venue for them to push each other to check it out.

Men think differently from women. Most do not want cushy pink ribbons to remind them of their health, but need an army of pro-test to be pro-state and know their "state." I want this to be our mantra, "KNOW YOUR STATE - get tested - KNOW YOUR STATE"

Let's find ways we can all work together to promote this as a very necessary knowledge for men - because you're somebody's daddy, somebody's husband, somebody's brother, somebody's uncle, somebody's grandpa, somebody's priest, somebody's teacher, somebody's cousin, somebody's hero....and I am still Daddy's little girl!

Pleaase listen to me. Please comment. How can we get this thing going? Work locally, but let's think nationally - and globally. Men have prostate glands the world over, cancer is universal. However, it can be stopped.

WHW said:

Support Groups
In addition to UsToo, the American Cancer Society sponsors the support group Man2Man. It has chapters in just about every city. Google it and you can find their locations near you. The Orlando area has 5 groups in the metro area.

As to why we don't have the same recognition as Pink Month. We just don't make enough noise about PCa. The women are much more organized and that is a fact. Just look at the number of men attending Pink functions. Most people did not know that September was PCa awareness month.

We need to do a lot better job of getting the word out. We all need to at least talk with every man we come in contact with about the advantages of establishing a baseline PSA and doing routine follow-ups. Men also need to get over the negativism of taking the finger from their doctor.

There is little publicity and definitely not enough awareness. Statistics prove that men are 33% more likely to get prostate cancer than women are to get breast cancer. About the same number of men will die from it each year as women will die from breast cancer. Some man will die from PCa every 17 minutes of every day this year.

We need to get these facts out. If your newspaper and tv station don't have anything about PCA Awareness next September 1st, we need to be sending emails and letters. Until we speak up we will never get the national attention and subsequently will never get the funding for support and care functions. Additionally we are sorely lagging behind in raising funds for PCa research to eliminate, control or come up with new methods of dealing with it.

Just my opinion, but one that I am finding that is shared by many.

Sonny