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Martin O'Malley, Governor
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Ch. 541
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Southern Maryland Charles County Prostate Cancer Pilot Program
FOR the purpose of establishing the Southern Maryland Charles County Prostate
Cancer Pilot Program; providing for the purpose of the Program; providing for
eligibility for the Program; requiring the Program to provide certain services
and activities; requiring the Program to be funded as provided in the State
budget; requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to distribute
grants to certain local health departments to administer the Program; requiring
the Department to make a certain report to certain committees of the General
Assembly on or before a certain date; authorizing a certain local health officer to
establish an advisory committee to oversee a certain grant process and
community education and outreach effort: defining certain terms; providing for
the termination of this Act; and generally relating to the Southern Maryland
Charles County Prostate Cancer Pilot Program.
BY adding to
Article - Health - General
Section 13-2501 through 13-2507 to be under the new subtitle "Subtitle 25.
Southern Maryland Charles County Prostate Cancer Pilot Program"
Annotated Code of Maryland
(2005 Replacement Volume and 2006 Supplement)
Preamble
WHEREAS, Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading
cause of cancer death among men; and
WHEREAS, More than 200,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each
year in the United States; and
WHEREAS, African-American men face a far greater risk from prostate cancer
than Caucasian men; and
WHEREAS, Caucasian men will contract prostate cancer at a rate of 147 per
100,000 while African-American men will contract prostate cancer at a rate of 222 per
100,000; and
WHEREAS, Southern Maryland Charles County has had the highest incidence
of prostate cancer diagnoses and deaths in Maryland from 1997-2001 and has
consistently held the highest prostate cancer incidence rate in Maryland for the last
decade; and
WHEREAS, Men living in rural areas are diagnosed with higher-stage prostate
cancer than men living in urban areas; and
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