I am a resident of Hawaii who has called on you many times for your help. No request was ever more urgent than what I ask of you today.

Diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer in 1993, I am a 16-year survivor, educator, and advocate for improvement in the sorry state of care for my disease.

Prostate cancer probably killed 28,600 American men, or more, in 2008, according to American Cancer Society estimates. More than 120 men in Hawaii may have died from prostate cancer last year, according to the same estimates.

Now is the time to assure funds are available for the research needed to give medical practitioners the science and tools necessary to
save thousands of men unnecessary pain, suffering and premature deaths from prostate cancer.
The Project to End Prostate Cancer urges research funding for the Department of Defense?s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. A number of prostate cancer organizations are working cooperative to save the research funding at the CDMRP and find a cure for prostate cancer.
Funding for prostate cancer research will hasten the time when doctors can tell aggressive, potentially lethal prostate tumors from indolent prostate growths,.