A few weeks ago we made our annual donation to the Prostate Cancer Foundation (www.pcf.org). After setting what was certainly an aggressive goal of a $40,000. donation this year, a 25% increase from 2009, I am proud to say that we made it! With this donation our cumulative donation to PCF is now $175,000. In addition, each year we take advantage of a matching program which makes the overall donation $350,000.

I picked this up from the PCF website. From a personal view, the future looks very encouraging!
2010 has been a great year for advances in prostate cancer.

• Two new drugs – Provenge and Cabazitaxel – were approved
• Two more drugs – Denosumab and Abiraterone – are pending approval
• A fifth drug, Ipilimumab, is in Phase III clinical trials
• Researchers at the University of Michigan discovered the 24 types of prostate cancer
• The cell of origin for prostate cancer was also discovered

To the FLHW Board, family, friends, donors, participants and sponsors for each of our events, I express my heart felt thanks. In the midst of the storm that is my battle with this disease, you all provide hope for me and hope for the men that will follow.

I found this story and it reinforces perhaps one of the ways we were able to accomplish this goal. You have to remember before reading this that overall charitable giving in 2009 was down again.