This Father's Day
marks the third annual Prostate Cancer Walk in Boston, a 5 km (3.1 mile) walk to raise money for
prostate cancer research in Massachusetts.
Prostate cancer has incidence
and mortality rates similar to those of breast cancer. According to some
estimates, one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer (compare one
in eight or nine for breast cancer.) This year about 32,000 men will die of the
disease (about 41,000 in the case of breast cancer). Statistical studies do
vary, but they are in these general ranges.
Signing up for the
Prostate Cancer Walk
To sign up for the walk,
to sponsor someone, or simply to get more information, visit here:
http://www.bostonpcwalk.org/index.htm
Walkers who register by
May 30 get a free T-shirt. Registration is $15 before May 30, $20 after.
At the end of the walk,
you can join 10,000 people on the Boston Common for the sixth annual "Dads
Make A Difference, A Celebration of Fathering and Families," an event
sponsored by The Medical Foundation with the City of Boston and several state
agencies.
I've asked my three sons
to sponsor me as their Father's Day present. I really don't need any more ties
or gadgets.
Please
join me! If you want to walk together, or if you want
to sponsor me or any group that we might form, get in touch with me at menletter.aol
or at tbaehr.aol.
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Further information
about prostate cancer research
Prostate Cancer makes up
37% of all cancer cases yet receives only 5% of research funding. (Source:
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, a part of the Centers for
Disease Control)
Expenditures for Cancer
Research by the National Cancer Institute in the Year 2000 (source: National
Prostate Cancer Coalition, http://www.4npcc.org/ ):
Breast
Cancer: $424,900,000
Prostate
Cancer: $190,000,000
Expenditures
for outreach and screening at CDC (2000):
Breast
and Cervical Cancer program: ±$185,000,000
Prostate
Cancer program (no screening): ±$11,000,000
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Other links of interest
to men
Men's Health Week June
9-15 ( http://www.menshealthweek.org/
) -- One of the goals of Men's Health Week is to raise awareness of health
issues for men and boys.
Men's Health Office ( http://www.menshealthoffice.info/
) -- There has been an Office for Women's Health since 1991, but attempts to
establish a similar office for men have faltered over the years. A new bill for
the 2003 Congress would establish this important office.
Men's Health Office Media
Sheet ( http://www.menshealthoffice.info/media.htm ) -- A
media sheet about efforts to establish an Office of Men's Health.
Men's Health Magazine ( http://menshealth.com/
) -- The Web version of the print magazine. Many annoying pop-ups, but they're
all internal to the site (no offers for spy cameras, travel discounts, etc.).
The content can get a little raunchy at times (never crossing over into porn),
but there is a ton of solid health information there -- for instance, this link
on prostate health: http://menshealth.com/health2/prostate_why_me.html
Men and depression ( http://www.seniors.gov/articles/0403/depression.htm
) -- Article on National Institutes of Mental Health's efforts to raise consciousness
of this near-epidemic.
There is money set aside for scholarships to the Men's Wisdom Council. If you want to go, and think you might need some financial help, get in touch with Felicity Pickett at the Rowe Camp and Conference Center. E-mail her at: info@RoweCenter.org or call: 413-339-4954. You will need to "make your case" and will probably be asked to fill out a form with income information and so on.
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