Every year in Florida nearly 14,000 more men are diagnosed with prostate cancer. Prostate cancer advocates work to increase the total federal prostate cancer funding by contacting Congressmen, Senators and the President. Florida does not currently recognize prostate cancer as a health priority. Statistically, black males are twice as likely to contract prostate cancer as white males, and all men over 65 run twice the risk as those between 50 and 65. There is a fundamental need for dramatically increased prostate cancer research.
Prostate cancer has a particularly severe impact on minority populations in the United States.
African-Americans have the highest prostate cancer incidence rates in the world. The need for an all out attack on the prostate cancer epidemic through research, education and access to quality health care is clear. Identifying the causes of prostate cancer, and its progression. Predicting the stages of prostate cancer. Alleviating patients pain.