House Bill hb9025

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                HR 9025

        By Representative Hogan






  1                         House Resolution

  2         A resolution recognizing June 2002 as Prostate

  3         Cancer Awareness Month in Florida.

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  5         WHEREAS, prostate cancer is the most common cancer

  6  diagnosed among men in Florida, and the American Cancer

  7  Society estimates that 15,000 new cases of prostate cancer

  8  will have been diagnosed among Florida males in 2001 once

  9  reports for that year are completed, and

10         WHEREAS, the American Cancer Society anticipates that

11  by the end of the year 2001 there will have been 2,400 deaths

12  in Florida attributed to prostate cancer, and

13         WHEREAS, African-American men have a 47-percent higher

14  incidence of prostate cancer than white men, and

15  African-American men are twice as likely to die of prostate

16  cancer than are white men, and

17         WHEREAS, the American Cancer Society recommends that

18  annual prostate screening begin at age 50, except that men at

19  high risk of cancer, such as African-American males and males

20  with a family history of the disease, are recommended to begin

21  annual screening at age 45, and

22         WHEREAS, the American Cancer Society supports the

23  annual African-American Men's Health Summit as an effort to

24  increase prostate cancer awareness and prostate screening

25  among African-American men in Florida, and

26         WHEREAS, the Man-to-Man Program of the American Cancer

27  Society is an attempt to increase prostate cancer awareness,

28  education, and support, particularly during the month of June

29  but throughout the rest of the year as well, NOW, THEREFORE,

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                HR 9025

    768-121-02






  1  Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of

  2  Florida:

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  4         That the House of Representatives recognizes the month

  5  of June 2002 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month in Florida and

  6  urges all men to gain a better understanding of the risks

  7  associated with prostate cancer, to take preventive steps to

  8  minimize those risks, and to consult their doctors about

  9  annual prostate cancer screening in compliance with the

10  American Cancer Society prostate cancer screening guidelines.

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