Ask Your U.S. Representative to Sign the "Dear Colleague" Letter

Help Fund the Cure for Prostate Cancer

Please contact your Representative and ask her/him to sign the DeLauro/King "Dear Colleague" letter for fiscal year 2008, and support a $100 million appropriation for the Prostate Cancer Research Rrograms at the Department of Defense (DoD).

House members need to be asked directly by their constituents to sign this important letter. Your voice makes a difference!

The deadline for this letter is the end of the day, Thursday, March 15, so send an e-mail or call today!

Send letter by clicking here.

Members of Congress are looking for programs to eliminate entirely and/or reduce funding for in the coming year. National Prostate Cancer Coalition has partnered with the breast and ovarian cancer advocacy communities to garner broad bipartisan support for all three of the "Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs" housed at the DoD.

Representative Peter King (R-NY) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), are circulating a "Dear Colleague" letter urging the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee which determines the funding levels for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program to provide:

• Prostate Cancer Research Program: $100 million
• Ovarian Cancer Research Program: $20 million
• Breast Cancer Research Program: $150 million

Please take a moment to personalize the e-mail to your Representative to explain how prostate cancer has impacted your life. Staff members remember stories better than statistics and personalized e-mails receive more attention than form e-mails. Personalizing your communication is extremely important!

If the person you contact in the Representative's office would like more information about the letter, please direct them to Averi Pakulis in Rep. DeLauro's office at (202) 225-3661, Kerry Ann Watkins in Rep. King's at (202) 225-7896, or Susan Stoner at the National Prostate Cancer Coalition at (202) 303-3104.

A "Dear Colleague" letter is a tool for members of Congress to build support for a program or particular legislative proposal. Any member of the House of Representatives can sign-on and after numerous signatures are collected, the final letter will be delivered to the House Military Quality of Life Appropriations Subcommittee.