Participate | Be Visible | Focus on Self Health |  Donate

Even though prostate cancer is as prevalent as breast cancer in the United States and worldwide, we need more attention and funding to better serve prostate cancer patients and their families. Here are a just a few ways you can increase awareness and commemorate Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

Participate!

• Read the 2011 Presidential Proclamation for National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month 

• "National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month" Unanimously Passed by US Senate on Friday, September 23, 2011

• Get active – take your passion and turn it into action! Write your Congressman or Representative in Washington DC about your support of some of the new prostate cancer legislation up for vote, including supporting more funds for research!. Attend the patient advocacy events in Washington DC Sept 20-22 at ZERO’s 2011 Summit to End Prostate Cancer

• Get active within the prostate cancer community. Join Us TOO’s social networking groups like Facebook, Twitter or Linked In and get your friends involved with raising awareness for prostate cancer and helping spread the word about all the resources Us TOO has available should a man or his family need it. 
  

• Help others who are now walking the path you have already trekked. Give guidance, support or words of encouragement to men and their families now battling a prostate cancer diagnosis by volunteering your time by participating in your local Us TOO support group chapter or private online peer-to-peer discussion community, Us TOO Inspire Prostate Cancer Support Community. 
  
  
  

• There are many awareness, screening and patient education events being held around the country during Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. See the calendar of events to find an activity in your area. 

• Sponsor a participant in a local prostate run or walk event. If you don’t have an event in your area but want to raise funds for Us TOO’s mission, set up a Virtual Team on Us TOO’s Chicago run/walk website.
  
  

  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Attend or hold a Pints for Prostates event at your local brewpub. 
  
           
  
  
  

Be Visible!
 

• Increase awareness in your community! Put up Us TOO’s new SEA Blue awareness posters in your doctor’s offices, at hospitals and clinics, in grocery stores, in store fronts, at work, church, the library, and many other public places! Request free posters and other awareness materials here

• Promote blue and the blue ribbon! The blue ribbon universally signifies research and patient support efforts for Prostate Cancer.

Focus on Self Health!

• Get tested—schedule an appointment for a PSA blood test and DRE! Us TOO Prostate Health Recommendations and Prevention Strategies

• Find screening events nationwide during Prostate Cancer Awareness Week and Month:

  • Prostate Conditions Education Council (PCEC)
  • “Know Your Stats” -- AUA Foundation and National Football League (NFL) Prostate Health Campaign
  • Zero: The Project to End Prostate Cancer
  • ProstateCheckup/All Sports Foundation, Inc.
  • Ed Randall’s Bat for the Cure

• Eat healthy. Look at new ways to improve your diet.

Donate!

• Make a contribution to support Us TOO and the patients and families we serve. Help us continue to provide men and their families with fellowship, peer counseling and timely, personalized, unbiased and reliable information about prostate cancer, enabling informed choices about detection, treatment options, and quality of life after treatment. 

• Honor a friend or family member fighting prostate cancer now with a Tribute Gift.  

• Honor a loved one who has passed away with a Memorial Gift.