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The PCF's annual Home Run Challenge (HRC) - in its 15th year - is a major source of prostate cancer research funding aimed at putting an end to death and suffering from this disease. Baseball fans across the country can pledge a dollar or more for every home run hit in 60 designated Major League Baseball games during the two weeks leading up to Father's Day, June 20. MLB and the Players Association have supported this program from its inception, and every team and ballpark is involved again this year. Each team plays four games during the HRC, and all their home runs in those select games raise funds to support prostate-cancer research. Learn more here.
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- Raised more than $350 million to fund more than 1,500 medical research projects at more than 200 institutions worldwide.
- Led advocacy and public awareness campaigns that have helped increase government funding for prostate cancer research by more than 12-fold over the past decade.
Best of all... prostate cancer deaths have declined. When the Prostate Cancer Foundation was founded in 1993, annual U.S. prostate cancer deaths were expected to increase in future years because the population most at risk - men over 50 - would increase as baby boomers aged. Yet a 2002 New York Times article said "The National Cancer Institute last year documented a 'dramatic decline' in the prostate cancer death rate per 100,000 men ages 50 and older since 1992; before 1992, the rate had been rising steadily."
Click one of the links below to watch Dr. Andrew Von Eschenbach, former director of the National Cancer Institute, describe Mike's role in the effort to develop better treatments and find a cure for cancer.
 | Watch Andrew Von Eschenbach, Former Director of the National Cancer Institute, describe Mike's role in the effort to develop better treatments and find a cure for cancer. Click below. |
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