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The Home Run Challenge is still going strong, transforming every home run into support for lifesaving prostate cancer research. Since June, the campaign has brought prostate cancer awareness to communities across America while highlighting the extraordinary research driving progress against the disease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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As Major League Baseball players hit 502 home runs, PCF Founder Mike Milken and CEO Gina Carithers traveled from San Diego and Los Angeles to San Francisco, Milwaukee, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Kansas City, meeting supporters, engaging fans, and championing the importance of early detection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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For more than 30 years, PCF has invested over $1 billion in research worldwide, helping advance scientific discoveries that have contributed to 15 FDA-approved therapies and fundamentally changed outcomes for men facing prostate cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The communities visited during this year’s Home Run Challenge are home to many of the researchers and institutions supported by PCF, where more than $383 million in funding has empowered over 560 investigators, including Young Investigator Award recipients, to pursue the next generation of prostate cancer breakthroughs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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  • New York City: $93.5 million supporting 139 investigators across 14 institutions<\/li>\n
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The communities visited during this year’s Home Run Challenge are home to many of the researchers and institutions supported by PCF, where more than $383 million in funding has empowered over 560 investigators, including Young Investigator Award recipients, to pursue the next generation of prostate cancer breakthroughs. New York City: $93.5 million supporting 139 investigators across 14 institutions Boston: $79.8 million supporting 118 investigators across 10 institutions Baltimore: $59.5 million supporting 68 investigators across 2 institutions Los Angeles: $49.1 million supporting 79 investigators across 9 institutions San Francisco: $46.2 million supporting 75 investigators across 3 institutions Philadelphia: $21.7 million supporting 31 investigators across 5 institutions Chicago: $18.4 million supporting 33 investigators across 6 institutions San Diego: $14.9 million supporting 23 investigators across 6 institutions Your support helps accelerate the research, therapies, and scientific discoveries that bring us closer to a future where no man dies from prostate cancer. The Prostate Cancer Foundation has been working to accelerate life-saving prostate cancer research since 1993 The Prostate Cancer Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7340","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFrom Ballparks to Breakthroughs: The Impact of Your Support - PCF Home Run Challenge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcf.org\/homerunchallenge\/from-ballparks-to-breakthroughs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From Ballparks to Breakthroughs: The Impact of Your Support - PCF Home Run Challenge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Donate The Home Run Challenge is still going strong, transforming every home run into support for lifesaving prostate cancer research. 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