Call to Action

One in every 6 men get prostate cancer at some time in their lives.

Compared with men who have no family history of the disease, men with a father or brother who has been diagnosed with prostate cancer have more than twice the risk of being diagnosed. Men with two or more relatives have about five times the risk. Men with three or more relatives are almost guaranteed to get prostate cancer.

My father died of prostate cancer, as did my sister's father-in-law. So my sister's husband has more than twice the risk of prostate cancer, and my sister's sons, having had both grandfathers die of prostate cancer, have five times the risk.

Military men have a greater incidence of prostate cancer, as do African-Americans and smokers.

Please notify your Representative that you support continued funding of the DOD's Prostate Cancer Research Program. If you go to this link, www.capwiz.com/zerocancer/issues/alert/?alertid=44301501, you can simply fill in the blanks, and the ZERO Project to End Prostate Cancer will email the letter to your Representative.

A personal hand-written letter is more effective. If you are willing to send a hand-written letter, go to www.house.gov/zip/ZIP2Rep.html if you need to find out who your Representative is; you'll need your zip code+4. (If you don't know the +4, they'll redirect you to the post office to find out, then you can click your Back button). Then click the link at the top of the ZERO page that says "Capitol Hill Basics" to review the brief statements about addressing letters to Congress.

Whether by email or by letter, including the "why" of requesting their support will add weight to your plea.

They must receive your email or letter by May 13.

Thank you SO MUCH!

(Statistics courtesy of ZERO Project to End Prostate Cancer)