National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, 2022

Proclamation 10435 of August 31, 2022

National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, 2022

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

During National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, we
recommit ourselves to taking on a cancer that will
affect over 260,000 people in America this year alone.
It is for those we have lost, those who continue to
fight, and those who will undergo this battle in the
future that we redouble our efforts to better
understand prostate cancer, develop innovative
treatments, and make care affordable and accessible.

Ending cancer as we know it is a top priority for my
Administration and a key pillar of the Unity Agenda
that I announced in my State of the Union Address. This
is personal to my family, as it is for millions of
Americans. That is why the First Lady and I reignited
our 2016 Cancer Moonshot Initiative, setting a goal of
cutting the cancer death rate by at least half over the
next 25 years. My Administration created a new Cancer
Cabinet to ensure that Federal agencies can better
coordinate research and development. And with
bipartisan support, we secured $1 billion in funding
from the Congress to launch the Advanced Research
Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), which will develop
cutting-edge cancer medicines, therapies, and early
detection technologies.

While our Nation's scientists push hard to find cures,
we must also safeguard protections for patients with
preexisting conditions and make treatments more
affordable for individuals diagnosed with prostate
cancer. No one should worry about whether they can pay
for their doctor or choose between filling a
prescription and putting food on the table. The
provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act will fulfil
my promise to make prescription drugs more affordable
for millions of Americans--many of whom are living with
illnesses like cancer--by capping out-of-pocket
prescription drug costs at $2,000. And it will finally
allow Medicare the ability to negotiate prescription
drug prices.

We must also increase awareness about the symptoms of
prostate cancer so it can be detected and treated as
early as possible. And it is important that we
acknowledge how prostate cancer affects us unequally.
Men over the age of 65, men who have a family history
of prostate cancer, and Black men are most likely to be
diagnosed and to die from this disease. I encourage
these and all Americans to talk to their primary care
providers about the risk factors for prostate cancer,
ask about opportunities for screenings, and learn more
about this disease at cancer.gov/types/prostateandcdc.gov/cancer/prostate.

Our Nation is defined by possibilities, and when we
invest in American spirit and American ingenuity, there
is nothing we cannot accomplish. During this National
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, let us mourn those we
have lost, offer strength to those who continue to
fight, thank the health care workers who battle this
disease to give others a chance at life, and join
forces as one to protect the health of future
generations.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 2022

as National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. I
encourage citizens, government agencies, private
businesses, nonprofit organizations, and other
interested groups to join in activities that will
increase awareness of what Americans can do to prevent
and cure prostate cancer.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.