Blue Cure 'go Blue!' - Prostate Cancer Awareness

Blue Cure 'Go Blue!' - Raising Awareness of Prostate Cancer
(with Blue Cure Founder Gabe Canales)
September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Public Service Announcement:
This year 33 thousand American dads, husbands, sons and brother will lose their lives to prostate cancer.
It's the most commonly diagnosed 'male cancer' in America
Yet prostate cancer has low awareness. It's underreported, under funded and demands more attention.
At age 35 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. People ask me all the time how they can help.
Well, here's what you can do.... Go BLUE!

September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month...So Wear Blue with a blue ribbon, a blue wristband, or blue neck tie, Network Blue -- change your facebook and twitter profile pics to a blue square and use hashtag #BlueCure on twitter and Speak BLUE -- Get people talking

You can be an advocate in your community! Ask your local sports team to have players wear a blue arm band or headband...ask your local newspaper to write about prostate cancer in blue ink,. Ask your elected officials to 'GO Blue' by publicly encouraging annual screenings. Ask the mayor to light City hall blue, ... let's ask the White House to 'GO BLUE' and light up BLUE one night this September!
Together anything is possible. Awareness will lead to action. And action will save lives.
Go Blue!

written by John Garza, Chris Kelly, Rebecca Spera, Gabe Canales.

Special Thanks: John Garza & Branch Media, John McMullen, Josh Smith, Abbas Padilla, Will Golden, Donald Kilgore
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Gabe Canales is founder of Blue Cure, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization fighting to end prostate cancer: not just an old man's cancer. Diagnosed at age 35.

From Gabe Canales -

A little about the Blue Cure Foundation I'm launching:

Did you know prostate cancer is more common than breast cancer? Prostate cancer strikes 1 in 6 men, while breast cancer strikes 1 in 8 women. Last year (2010), an estimated 217,730 U.S. men were diagnosed with prostate cancer and 32,050 died of the disease, the most commonly diagnosed "male cancer."

When I was diagnosed last year at age 35, like most men I had little idea what it was. Now I do -- and I want to help others learn, too. So I've spoken across the country, written for The Huffington Post and the Houston Chronicle, met with top doctors and researchers and appeared in interviews to raise awareness and educate others.

Yes, I'm committed -- and I'm devoting the rest of my life to raising awareness and saving lives. That's why this summer (2011) I officially launched the Blue Cure Foundation, as the "blue" men's side of the "pink" campaign for women's breast cancer. Our goal is to raise awareness of prostate cancer, encourage annual screenings, promote healthier lifestyles for preventative measures and reach a younger generation.

Please join me in the fight to end prostate cancer!

- Gabe Canales

Connect with other supporters helping us in the fight to end prostate cancer on our Blue Cure facebook community page: http://www.facebook.com/BeatProstateCancer

more info...

Prostate Cancer Facts and Statistics

DIAGNOSIS AND MORTALITY RATES

Prostate cancer is diagnosed every two minutes and fifteen seconds, and more than 217,730 new cases are expected in 2010. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in America among men.

An estimated 32,050 American men will lose their lives to prostate cancer this year.

Prostate cancer takes about one life every 18 minutes.

One in six American men is at lifetime risk of prostate cancer.

If a close relative has prostate cancer, a man's risk of the disease more than doubles. With two relatives, his risk increases five times. With three close relatives, his risk is about 97 percent.

In the next 24 hours, prostate cancer will claim the lives of 83 American men.

Prostate cancer represents 33 percent of all new cancer cases in American men. That's more new cases than any other cancer.

SURVIVAL RATES

Almost 100 percent of men diagnosed with prostate cancer are still alive in five years.

About 90 percent of prostate cancer cases are found while the cancer is still either local or regional, and nearly 100 percent of these men are still alive five years after being diagnosed.

About 91 percent of men diagnosed with prostate cancer are still alive after 10 years, and the 15-year survival rate is 76 percent.


Source: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

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[ProstateCareToday]

Way to get out the word. Go Blue. The staff at Prostate Care Today applaud you.

[bruceink9]

Excellent call to action. Go Blue!

[KissChronicles]

GO BLUE! I have my blue ribbon on right now, changed my personal FB picture, and posted about blue on my blog, Kiss Chronicles. Doing what I can.

[POSSIBILITIESac]

Great video, great cause, GO BLUE!

[AHCCresearch]

Great video - well done!

[xx9xSierraMorganx5xx]

Very informative, short in duration and to the point. GO BLUE