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Caring for the Uninsured in California with Prostate Cancer

​In California, 105,900 men are living with prostate cancer at any given time. If caught and treated early, the survival rate for prostate cancer approaches 100 percent. Mark Litwin, a UCLA professor of health services and urology and the director of IMPACT, an organization that aims to provide high-quality free prostate cancer treatment to Californian men with little or no health insurance, will discuss how health care reform will positively affect uninsured California men.

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Mark Litwin

Mark Litwin

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Thursday, October 15, 2026

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Tuesday, November 17, 2026

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2026 E.R. Brown Symposium — Nourishing the Future: Reimagining Nutrition Security in an Era of Change

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