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All,

I have the honor of informing you that ZERO has received a $1 million grant
for the Drive Against Prostate Cancer program. The money has come from an
anonymous donor and will be wire transferred to our bank account early next
week. The money is to be used to support the testing program as well as to
purchase/refurbish another vehicle to replace the aging vehicle number 1.

We are thrilled to have been selected and are eager to put this grant to
excellent use. Special thanks to Jamie Bearse for handling the
negotiations and to Betsy, Tracy and Amanda for operating an excellent
program that is very deserving of this money. We will update you shortly
with more details concerning how we will move forward.

In other excellent news Robin Sparrow has sold out his golf tournament and
Sherry Galloway has secured the local television station and its celebrity
weatherman/prostate cancer survivor as a sponsor of the Jeremy Paster
Memorial Great Prostate Cancer Challenge. Also, the Know Your Score golf
tournament is coming along nicely. This year we will be at a new course
(Pawley's Plantation Golf and Country Club in Pawley's Island, SC) with a
new set of sponsors and we hope to have news of a new celebrity spokesperson
shortly.

Finally, we continue to work to protect the CDMRP as Congress tries to
figure out how to get a budget for 2011 passed. We are working diligently
with a coalition of other CDMRP program stakeholders as well as with the
prostate cancer community to ensure the survival of this program. Kevin has
been in negotiations with the AUA and the Congressional sponsors of the
Prostate Act. He has successfully pushed them to make significant changes
to the bill which we hope will improve its chances of passage as well as
correcting some serious defects in the structure (i.e. the Veterans
Administration does NOT need to be the coordinating entity of prostate
cancer research). We. will keep you apprised of any new information.

Finally, this short article from Politico, shared by Mike Smith should give
you a flavor of the atmosphere here in DC:

*THE $93,000 QUESTION – *If anything is too expensive for Medicare, it just
might be a prostate cancer therapy that costs $93,000 and gives men, on
average, an extra four months to live. The decision is due March 30, when
CMS must decide whether Medicare will pay for Provenge, a cancer therapy. If
CMS decides not to cover it, the agency could open itself up to the
“government rationing” charges again (because Don Berwick was really missing
those). And if the agency decides to cover it, the Obama administration will
lose a lot of its talking points about controlling health care spending. The
POLITICO Pro Story. http://politico.pro/euyY9f

It is amazing how cavalier people can be with other people's lives.

Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions.

--Skip
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Skip Lockwood
President and CEO
ZERO -- The Project to End Prostate Cancer
10 G St., NE
Suite 601
Washington, DC 20002
202-463-9455 (main)
202-463-9456 (fax)

Virginia Office:
515 King St.
Suite 420
Alexandria, VA 22304

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