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September is National Prostate Cancer Month, and AdMeTech Foundation is sponsoring and coordinating Prostate Cancer Awareness Day at the State House in Boston, Massachusetts. This event will be held on Thursday, September 10, 2009, between 10 am and 12 noon, in the Massachusetts State House’s Great Hall.
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This event was organized in cooperation with the leaders of the State House (on both the House and the Senate side) who are outspoken champions and/or survivors of prostate cancer, leaders of medicine, and patient and advocacy groups:
Leaders of the State House
Senator Stephen Brewer: Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Ways and Means; Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security; & Member, Senate Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs
Senator Steven Tolman: Senate Assistant Majority Whip; Member, Senate Committee on Ways and Means & Senate Committee on Steering and Policy
Rep. William Greene, Jr.: Member, Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, Joint Committee on Housing & Joint Committee on Revenue
Rep. Kevin Honan: Chair, Joint Committee on Housing
Rep. Stephen Kulik: Assistant Vice Chair, House Committee on Ways and Means; & Member, Joint Committee on Federal Stimulus Oversight
Leaders of Medicine and Patient Advocacy Groups
Thomas Farrington: President, Prostate Health Education Network
Dr. Philip Kantoff: Chief Clinical Research Officer; Chief, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology and Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Faina Shtern: President & CEO, AdMeTech Foundation
Dr. Clare Tempany: Chair of Radiology Research, Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
To read blog posts relating to Prostate Cancer Awareness Day, click here.
For a general description of our annual event, click here.
Dr. Faina Shtern, President of AdMeTech Receives Commendation for Prostate Cancer Awareness Day from the Massachusetts State House.
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| Dr. Shtern, President of AdMeTech Foundation, reviewed the prostate cancer crisis and critical need to improve prostate cancer diagnostics. | Senator Brewer describes his personal experience with prostate cancer and expresses his commitment to an annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Day. | Senator Steven Tollman speaks out about the importance of Prostate Cancer Awareness Day. |
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| Dr. Shtern, President of AdMeTech Foundation, reviewed the prostate cancer crisis and critical need to improve prostate cancer diagnostics. | Senator Brewer describes his personal experience with prostate cancer and expresses his commitment to an annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Day. | Senator Steven Tollman speaks out about the importance of Prostate Cancer Awareness Day. |
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| Rep. Greene is a prostate cancer survivor who expressed his support for Prostate Cancer Awareness Day. | Mark Lightner, Area Chair, Arthur Murray International-New England, expressed commitment of his organization to support Dance for the Cure of Prostate Cancer in Massachusetts, Northeast, and nationally. | Dr. Philip Kantoff demonstrates that prostate cancer is a common denominator for many celebrities. Dr. Kantoff leads prostate cancer research at Harvard Medical School. |
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| Dr. Clare Tempany describes a case study where prostate cancer was missed with current diagnostics for several years in a man who’s married to a professor from Harvard Medical School. | Senator Donnelly shares how blood test PSA was normal when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer on physical exam. | Barry Hughson, Executive Director of the Boston Ballet, expresses his support for Dance for the Cure of Prostate Cancer. |
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| Rep. Honan who has had personal experience with cancer in his family expressed his commitment to fighting prostate cancer. | Rep. Kulik is a prostate cancer survivor who acknowledged advances in treatment, but expressed the need for improved diagnostics. | Mark Lightner, Area Chair, Arthur Murray International-New England, along with Dr. Clare Tempany and Dr. Philip Kantoff. |