[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 171 (Wednesday, September 6, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 60873-60874]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19329]


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                Proclamation 10613 of August 31, 2023

                
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, 2023

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                This year alone, more than 280,000 Americans will be 
                diagnosed with prostate cancer. During National 
                Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, we honor the lives 
                ended too soon and all those we can still save by 
                redoubling our efforts to end cancer as we know it.

                When someone is diagnosed with prostate cancer, every 
                second counts. But patients are too often left 
                advocating for basic care while drowning in a flood of 
                medical information. Even when treatment is available, 
                some struggle to afford it or insurance may not cover 
                it. And stark inequities exist: Black men are more than 
                twice as likely to die from prostate cancer in this 
                country than other men.

                Our Nation must do more to change that. Last year, the 
                First Lady and I reignited the Cancer Moonshot, setting 
                an ambitious new goal to cut America's cancer death 
                rate by at least half over the next 25 years, turning 
                more cancers from death sentences into treatable 
                diseases and improving support for patients and 
                families. I worked with the Congress to establish the 
                Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, securing 
                $2.5 billion in bipartisan funding to develop 
                breakthroughs in preventing, diagnosing, and treating 
                cancer and other deadly diseases and pioneering 
                partnerships to get those breakthroughs out to clinics 
                and patients. We are making lifesaving cancer care more 
                affordable for millions of Americans, expanding 
                coverage through Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, 
                and helping many who had received relief during the 
                pandemic to keep saving $800 a year on insurance 
                premiums. The Inflation Reduction Act will soon cap 
                total out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors 
                on Medicare at $2,000 a year--including for expensive 
                cancer medicines--which could save some prostate cancer 
                patients up to $6,000 a year.

                We are also working to make sure prevention, detection, 
                and treatment procedures are available to patients of 
                all communities and backgrounds. The National 
                Institutes of Health is continuing expansive research 
                into environmental and genetic factors to better 
                understand why prostate cancer disproportionately 
                affects Black men. In response to our Cancer Moonshot, 
                the Department of Veterans Affairs expanded its 
                National Precision Oncology Program to better tailor 
                treatments to individual veterans. And we know that 
                screening matters: Experts recommend that men with a 
                higher risk of cancer--based on race or ethnicity, 
                family history, or other factors--discuss it with their 
                doctors.

                Everyone's journey with cancer is different, but the 
                First Lady and I know how hard it can be on the whole 
                family. To all those caring for loved ones with 
                prostate cancer and all those facing it themselves, we 
                stand with you. My Administration is working around the 
                clock on breakthroughs that can bring hope and more 
                choices to the fight against this disease.

                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 2023

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                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-three, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                eighth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2023-19329
Filed 9-5-23; 8:45 am]
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