Senate Bill sb3208

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 3208

    By Senator Hill





    1-2699-04

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing September 2004 as

  3         "Prostate Cancer Awareness Month."

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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 more than 17,000 new cases of prostate

  8  cancer will be diagnosed among Florida men during 2004, and

  9         WHEREAS, the American Cancer Society also anticipates

10  there will be more than 2,000 deaths in Florida this year

11  attributed to prostate cancer, and

12         WHEREAS, Florida has the second-highest number of

13  prostate cancer cases and deaths in the United States, and

14         WHEREAS, African-American and black men have the

15  highest prostate cancer death rate in the world, and a

16  mortality rate that is twice that of white men, and

17         WHEREAS, the American Cancer Society recommends that

18  annual prostate cancer testing begins at age 50, except for

19  men at high-risk, such as African-Americans and men with a

20  family history of the disease, who are advised to begin annual

21  screening at age 45, and

22         WHEREAS, the 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer

23  patients is 100 percent if the disease is diagnosed at the

24  local and regional stages, otherwise known as the early

25  stages, and

26         WHEREAS, the American Cancer Society supports

27  African-American Men's Health Summits in at least 16 major

28  metropolitan areas across the state in an attempt to increase

29  prostate cancer awareness and prostate screening among

30  African-American men in Florida, and

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 3208
    1-2699-04




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

 2  Society attempts to increase prostate cancer awareness,

 3  education, and support during the month of September and

 4  throughout the year, NOW, THEREFORE,

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 6  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 8         That September 2004 is recognized as "Prostate Cancer

 9  Awareness Month" in Florida and all men are urged to

10  understand the risks associated with prostate cancer, to take

11  preventive steps to minimize those risks, and to talk to their

12  doctor about annual prostate cancer screening and compliance

13  with the prostate cancer screening guidelines recommended by

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