Fred Mills
Chairperson
Board of Directors

US Too, Inc.

Dear Mr. Mills:

On behalf of the Board of Directors, the dozens of volunteers and the many thousands of men whose lives Malecare has been privileged to aid, I offer our congratulations to US Too on its twenty years of service to our prostate cancer survivor community.

US Too’s work in developing and promoting prostate cancer support groups is well known and inspiring. Its education materials and events have proven informative and helpful to many men and their families.  And US Too’s recent efforts to collaborate with organizations such as Malecare have validated the power of united action and advocacy.  US Too has surely helped to diminish the pain caused to so many by Prostate Cancer.  Malecare joins US Too in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, with the hope that someday, soon, we will all see the end of suffering from Prostate Cancer.

Sincerely,

Darryl Mitteldorf, LCSW
Executive Director
Malecare
Men fighting cancer, together.

REPLY FROM FRED MILLS

Darryl

Thank you so much for your nice note about the 20th anniversary event. We appreciate the work that Malecare does and the collaboration opportunities we share.  Together we all can make a difference.  I will relay your message to our board.

Thank you!

Fred

Malecare , via Malecare’s Advanced Disease Program Director Joel Nowak , is the first to break the following news:

Hot off the press-   The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  has approved Sanofi-Aventis SA’s new
chemotherapy drug for advanced prostate cancer.


The  drug, Jevtana (cabazitaxe) extended by nearly 2-1/2 months the lives of men with prostate
cancer tumors that resist standard treatment with hormones as well as chemotherapy.

The drug will be used after taxotere has failed.

Another break for men with advanced prostate cancer.

Malecare now has an active page on Facebook. Please click here and “like” our Facebook page
or http://tinyurl.com/2amz3xy Help us show the world we are many and strong and worthy of more research for a cure or durable, morbidity free treatment for prostate cancer.

Shine a light on Prostate Cancer.  Shine a Blue Light.  Shine a Blue Light on our country’s leading symbol of democracy, The White House.  An idea from Dan Zenka, the PCF”s V.P. of P.R.. Dan is also a 52 year old newly diagnosed prostate cancer survivor.  Please send your own email to  www.whitehouse.gov/contact, simply asking, Please shine a Blue Light on the White House, this September,  for National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Select “Non-policy issue” and “First Family” in the pull down menu.

The American Cancer Society’s Pinellas County branch canceled an LGBT-focused Relay For Life that was scheduled for March 21, 2010.  As described by the event’s organizer, Bobby Poth, American Cancer Society officials “ were worried about how the general public would react to an LGBT-targeted event [and] allowed personal beliefs to play a role in that fear, etc.”

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered cancer survivors, their friends, family and care givers, deserve complete and unfettered support by all of us, including the American Cancer Society. Homophobia is vile and life threatening, particularly to those who are vulnerable because of ongoing health care treatment.   Out With Cancer – The LGBT Cancer Project is our country’s first and leading LGBT cancer survivor support and advocacy national nonprofit organization.  We know that prejudice hurts LGBT cancer survivors, diminishing access to appropriate health care, elevating psycho-social stressors and reducing research into LGBT health care disparities.  To see our country’s largest cancer survivor nonprofit, the American Cancer Society give in to homophobia, is harmful to all of us.