 The Prostate Cancer Foundation Updates Website
[This is from an email I received from them. They're providing excellent resources at their site now. Pictured is Johnny Ramone (whose real name I can't recall now is John Cummings) who recently died from advanced metastatic disease at age 55. The Rolling Stone article I read mentioned that he had a Gleason score of 9 at diagnosis.]
In 2004, an estimated 230,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer - one new case every 3 minutes. The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is dedicated to making this statistic merely a sad memory, but, we need your help to do it. Please join us in the fight against prostate cancer by forwarding this email to friends and family and help spread the word about the most common cancer in America. By sharing our website www.prostatecancerfoundation.org with others, you can help the PCF more rapidly achieve its mission: finding better treatments and cure for recurrent prostate cancer.
The PCF's new website is intended to provide patients and loved ones comprehensive and easily accessible information about prostate cancer, treatment options, nutrition, lifestyle, risk factors and resources that can help and provide assistance. The PCF plans to use the site to help patients, raise both awareness and funds, and accelerate research. In addition to serving as a resource for patients, PCF will use the site to further simplify and accelerate how researchers can apply for funds, provide to the media and others extensive information about prostate cancer and the PCF, and include information about our corporate partners and promotions.
Some of the outstanding new resources available include: The Therapeutics Database, which catalogues all of the therapies under development for prostate cancer including a brief description of each. The new Clinical Trials Database, which catalogs prostate cancer clinical trials in more than 500 locations nationwide. Users will be able to search for prostate cancer clinical trials within a designated distance from their home that might be appropriate for them. A downloadable version of Nutrition & Prostate Cancer, prepared by David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, which offers the latest on nutritional and lifestyle changes. The monograph also discusses the relationship between nutrition and hormone therapy, chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
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