JANUARY 2025

As we mark the end of January, I am filled with immense gratitude and excitement for the year ahead. The calendar for 2025 is already getting filled with important health events and PSA screenings that will make a significant impact on our community's well-being.

I am particularly thrilled to celebrate a wonderful community event Fans for the Cure recently held in collaboration with Dr. Michael Feuerstein of NewYork Presbyterian – Westchester and the Messiah Baptist Church on Saturday, January 18, at the Yonkers Public Library. It was a day spent exchanging essential information, as well as experiencing the strong camaraderie of men united in a common mission to support their brothers and families affected by prostate cancer.  

Looking ahead a couple of weeks, we hope you can join us at Flowers Park in New Rochelle from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. for what has become our annual Super Bowl Sunday Catch. Bring your glove – and we will provide the baseballs. Visit [email protected] with any questions or go to the Catch for the Cure fundraising site if you cannot make it to Flowers Park but wish to support the event.  

Thank you for standing with us and for being a vital part of the Fans for the Cure community. Together, we are making a difference in the fight against prostate cancer. We look forward to your continued support as we move forward in 2025.

With heartfelt gratitude,

Ed Randall
Founder + Chief Advocacy Officer
Fans for the Cure

Fans for the Cure and the charity’s Women’s Support Group will be marking National Caregiver Appreciation Day with a streaming webinar and an evening reception in New York City on March 3, 2025.

The special guest presenter at the webinar will be Dr. Allison Applebaum, the head of Mt. Sinai’s Center for Caregiving and the best-selling author of Stand By Me: A Guide to Navigating Modern, Meaningful Caregiving. Copies of Allison’s book will be available at the evening reception. 

There will be a link to the webinar in the February 25 newsletter and on our website. For more information about attending the March 3 gathering in New York City, write to us at [email protected]. 

The charity is pleased to announce that Major League Baseball will be underwriting the translation and printing expenses of Fans for the Cure’s 2025 educational handouts. It will allow the charity to better engage, inform, and educate the large number of Spanish speakers who attend community health events. 

Thank you to our friends at MLB for supporting this initiative and helping us better communicate with people about their health. 

Ed Randall will again be hosting a “catch” event on Super Bowl Sunday, February 9, to kick off a year of catches meant to call attention to the importance of early detection in achieving best outcomes for those diagnosed with prostate cancer. 

Bring your glove, and Fans for the Cure (and Rawlings) will supply the baseballs. The gathering will take place at Flowers Park in New Rochelle (NY) from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

Building on last year’s 30 Catches in 30 Days during National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (September), Ed is planning to expand 30 Catches to June to mark Men’s Health Month. 

There is no need to RSVP, but if you'd like to let us know that you are coming, please send an email to [email protected].

Best-selling author, entrepreneur, and TED speaker (3x), Chip Conley, will be the special guest at the March 6 Men’s Support Group. Drawing from his latest book, Learning to Love Midlife, 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age, Chip will offer an alternative narrative to how we often think about life after age 50. 

Chip is also the founder of the Modern Elder Academy, an organization that urges us to reimagine aging by creating meaningful experiences in midlife and beyond.

The charity will again be offering over fifty online support groups during 2025. The Women’s Support Group (spouses/partners/caregivers) will meet on the first and third Tuesdays of every month at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, with the Men’s Support Group meeting every other Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern Time. 

Visit the website for the schedule of physicians, psychologists, public health experts, journalists, and patient advocates who regularly join the conversations as special guests.

Women's Support Group: fansforthecure.org/what-we-do/online-womens-support-group

Men's Support Group: fansforthecure.org/online-mens-support-group

With pitchers and catchers reporting to big league spring training camps in a couple of weeks, we wanted to take a moment for a shout-out to three Major Leaguers whose generosity and support of Fans for the Cure qualify them as first-ballot Hall of Famers in our eyes and hearts.

Here’s to productive, happy, and healthy seasons for three of the good guys.

Thank you – Nick Castellanos, Dominic Leone, and Dominic Smith.

Mets Screening – Date TBD, Braves series in late June

Cedar Rapids Kernels – Ballpark Screening and Awareness Day, Sunday, June 27

Worcester Red Sox – Ballpark Screening and Awareness Night, Tuesday, August 19

Harlem Cares! – Prostate Cancer Walk and Men’s Health Awareness Day, Saturday, September 6

Both of our online support groups are free and open to all men and women respectively, with registration required.

Men's Support Group

• Thursday, February 6 at 7:00 PM ET – Register for the Men's Support Group meeting. 
• Thursday, February 20 at 7 PM ET

Women's Support Group

• Tuesday, February 4 at 8 PM ET – Register for the Women's Support Group meeting.
• Tuesday, February 18 at 8 PM ET

Fans for the Cure allows attendees to register for only the immediately upcoming online support group meeting. Thanks for understanding our desire to keep our meetings safe, secure, and private.

We thank Bayer for generously underwriting the technical and production costs associated with Fans for the Cure’s Online Men’s and Women’s/Caregivers’ Support Groups.

Over the past twenty years, Fans for the Cure has been fortunate to develop a strong network of trusted doctors, many of whom practice at NCI-Designated Cancer Centers and highly regarded regional hospitals. We are always available to assist you in finding a prostate cancer-focused physician or multidisciplinary team to guide you and your loved ones through all phases of the disease.

For timely referrals in all fifty states and Canada, please get in touch with us at (888) 301-4414 or via the orange button below. We promise to get back to you within twenty-four hours at the very latest.

In this section, we share links to blog posts, news articles, medical journals, books, and other items that we think will be of interest to you.

1. Urine-based test detects aggressive prostate cancer
2. VIDEO: Travel Writer Rick Steves Takes an Unexpected Cancer Journey – published by our colleagues at CancerHealth.com
3. Prostate cancer becomes the most diagnosed cancer in the (UK)
4. How do I stay healthy in my 60s?
5. Moffitt Study Shows How Genomic Tests Could Help Treat Prostate Cancer More Effectively

As we expand the reach of our awareness, screening, and educational programs, your donation would make a meaningful impact to our capacity to reach underserved communities. We invite you to donate in support of our work.

Note: Candid will issue transparency ratings for 2025 in February.

Call us: 888-301-4414