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"Prostate cancer is the most common major cancer in this country, and the incoming Obama administration and Congress must recognize development of accurate and affordable prostate cancer diagnostics and treatment as a national priority comparable to breast cancer," said Dr. Faina Shtern, president and CEO of AdMeTech Foundation and a daughter of a prostate cancer survivor. "Indeed, prostate cancer can be cured if detected early, and yet today it is the second most lethal cancer in men. Just as alarming, the lack of accurate diagnostics results in widespread unnecessary biopsies and treatment, causing life-altering complications to men and billions of dollars annually to national health care."

Dr. Theodore DeWeese, Chair of Radiation Oncology at Johns Hopkins University, was among the conference participants who joined to support the consensus statement: "As a physician, I firmly believe that we lack the accurate imaging tools that would help us perform better biopsies and design more optimal treatments for our patients."

The clinical experts met over the past two days as a result of the meeting between leadership of the AdMeTech Foundation, advocacy groups, and industry with Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of NIH, in the spring of 2008. The experts unanimously agreed that prostate cancer care is in a state of crisis due to the lack of reliable imaging tools critical to guiding early detection, accurate diagnosis and the most effective and least invasive treatment.

AdMeTech is a nonprofit organization, which identifies funds and administers research and development projects to expedite the advancement of technologies that can improve early diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

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