This year we lost 27,000 men to prostate cancer, with 186,000 more men diagnosed in 2008. That’s more diagnoses than all other (non-skin cancers) combined! The prevailing (and fatally incorrect) wisdom is that this is an “old man’s disease.

This year Athletes for a Cure was represented at more than 200 events across the US and everywhere we went we were greeted by men and their  families who for the most part were under 55-years old who had a prostate cancer diagnosis in the family. Here are just a few stories as told in a short video: http://www.vimeo.com/1881463

There would be no more appropriate time to ask you for your prayers and thoughts than Christmas Eve for the 186,000 men who, on a day they least expected it had their doctor walk into a room and say, “I’m sorry, but you have prostate cancer.” Please add a special thought for those 27,000 families that lost a man in their lives.

Please take a moment tonight to remember them all. Thank you.

Scott