PRINTER'S NO. 1183
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
202
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY DINNIMAN, MARTIN, BARTOLOTTA, FONTANA, J. WARD,
A. WILLIAMS, BREWSTER, MASTRIANO, VOGEL, MENSCH, BROWNE,
KILLION, AUMENT, K. WARD, PITTMAN, BLAKE, HUGHES AND SCHWANK,
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the month of September 2019 as "Prostate Cancer
Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania and acknowledging the
importance of raising public awareness of the threat and
causes of prostate cancer.
WHEREAS, Prostate cancer is a disease in which normal cells
in the prostate gland begin to change and grow uncontrollably,
forming a mass called a tumor; and
WHEREAS, Some prostate cancers grow very slowly and may not
cause problems for years; and
WHEREAS, Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer
diagnosed in men in the United States and is the most common
cancer among men in this Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, Data published by the Department of Health show that
prostate cancer accounted for the largest percentage of all
cancer cases diagnosed in men in this Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
reports that prostate cancer is the second leading cause of
cancer death in American men, after lung cancer; and
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