(Source: GK Butterfield) WASHINGTON, DC - Congressmen G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), Michael McCaul (R-TX), Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and Walter Jones (R-NC) today introduced the National Prostate Cancer Plan Act that would establish a council of federal agencies, patients, and medical experts charged with drafting and implementing a national strategy to combat prostate cancer. "Prostate cancer is an epidemic and has a disproportionate impact African Americans," said Butterfield. "Black men have the highest prostate cancer rates of any racial or ethnic group and are more than twice as likely to die from the disease. The...
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