On April 22^nd, 2009, people from around the globe gathered at US Cellular Field in Chicago to announce the Learning Living & Loving campaign. This call to action orginates from a forum of 13 disparate prostate cancer patient groups that came together to discuss the state of prostate cancer with an aim to improve the experience of prostate cancer for men.

This charter calls upon healthcare professionals, policy makers, patient groups, pharmaceutical companies, the media and the general public to advance the early detection, diagnosis, treatment and management of prostate cancer and also take effective steps to improve the handling of the ‘whole man’ – in terms of body, mind and spirit – and the impact prostate cancer has on their psychological, emotional and love lives.

Key Participants included

Thomas N. Kirk, MSSW
President and CEO, US TOO International Inc.
Prostate cancer Education and Support Network

James Kiefert, EdD
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Us TOO International, Inc.
Chairman of the Washington State Prostate Cancer Task Force
prostate cancer survivor

Douglas Jardine, PhD, LMFT, LISAC
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)
Healing Heart- Transforming Minds
prostate cancer survivor

Sandy Jardine, MS, LPC
Healing Heart- Transforming Minds
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
wife of a prostate cancer survivor

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