May 13 , 2008
- A new page has been added to the Advocacy Section that presents the currently active Malecare petition. This document asks the new President of the United States who will take office in January of 2009 to make make prostate cancer a national priority.
Click here to see the text of the document and to a link to a page where you may endorse this very significant petition. An Important Prostate Cancer Petition From Malecare
July 31, 2007
- Additional items have been added to the advocacy pages for the Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Act.
This bill has been sent to appropriate House and Senate Committees. The quickest way to get these to the floor for voting is to have as many co-sponsors as possible. To assist in this effort, several new links have been added to the advocacy web page. It now contains links to the Library of Congress summaries of these bills, including the list of co-sponsors. Also included are links to the House and Senate Committees to which these bills have been referred. These links include listings of the committee members. In addition to the sample letter, a link to a sample fax urging members to sign on as co-sponsors has also been included.
Click here to see these changes.
Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Act
May 10, 2007
- New pages have been added to the Advocacy Section to make it easier to take action on current Prostate Cancer issues. You may click on any of the items below to view these pages
- Sending Advocacy Letters
- This page describes tools we have implemented to help you make a difference by taking action on current Prostate Cancer issues. It describes how to find an issue, how to use sample letters provided, to whom the letter should be sent, and how to use links to locate the recipient.
- Action Items
- This page contains a list of currently OPEN Prostate Cancer action issues and their due dates. Over time, CLOSED items will be also be listed for archival purposes
- Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Act
- This page contains the first action item in these new advocacy pages. The Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Act of 2007 adds Prostate Cancer to the public law that made the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection and Treatment programs possible. These federal and state funded programs currently provide screening and treatment for about 500,000 women annually. Passage of this bill will put Prostate Cancer on a more equal footing.
Normal access to these pages will be by clicking on the "Advocacy" tab on the top line of every NASPCC web page and then on the appropriate item in the resulting list.
- Two new items have been added to the "Resources" tab on the main menu bar
- Events
- This section will contain reports from significant events attended by NASPCC representatives. Currently it contains only the report from the 2006 ASCO/ASTRO/SUO/PCF PROSTATE CANCER SYMPOSIUM which was formerly under the "What is New" hot button on the home page.
- Press Releases
- This section will contain NASPCC press releases. It currently contains the Screening Guidelines press release which was formerly under the "News" tab. The News tab now shows an "Under Construction" page. Once this is developed, we hope to make the web site more dynamic by including current new items of significant interest on a scheduled basis.
