PSA Screening of Informed Patients

Prostate cancer deserves curative male prostate lumpectomy just as we have achieved with breast cancer in women.  But we aren't there yet.  It is tragic that today's surgical remedies leave tens of thousands of men incontinent and sexually dysfunctional every year.  Radiation and chemotherapy seem to buy only limited time in non-surgically treating the cancer.  Every day, I pray for my dear friend George.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) re-introduced on March 31, 2009, two bills to improve research on prostate cancer and ovarian cancer.  S.756, the "Prostate Research, Imaging, and Men's Education Act (PRIME)" provides for prostate cancer imaging research and education, the kind that is needed.  Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA) reintroduced the Act in the House of Representatives.  I urge you to write or call or email or fax your representatives in the U. S. Senate and the U. S. House of Representatives to get behind these bills. 

We need to rid our nation - and the world over - of this plague.  Don't let healthcare policy pundits delude you into thinking that screening is a waste of time or money. Get better informed to be empowered as a patient to work with your doctor in deciding what to do with the results of screening.  Put your voice behind research to help bring more effective, less risky options into the equation of treatment and cure.  Give this a priority voice, today............ so that more of us are here and together tomorrow.

¹Sourced from  www.cancer.gov 

accessed on 20 May 2009

Nancy Muller

NAFC Executive Director