California State University, Fullerton Students Deliver Plan for Trans-American Road Rally for Prostate Cancer Awareness

Irvine, California, – Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer and kills almost 29,000 American men every year. A team of students from the Practical Advantage Communications program at California State University, Fullerton spent 8 weeks developing the event and press plan for the Cancer Journeys Foundation’s 2017 Tour de USA® Road Rally for prostate cancer awareness. The Tour de USA® Road Rally, scheduled for mid-August to September 4th, 2017, will be the longest Road Rally held in the United States.

Practical Advantage Communications is a student-run Agency that serves at the capstone course for students in the advertising, entertainment and tourism communications, and public relations concentrations. The Tour de USA project students were: Ombeline Armand, Allen Fernandez, Quentin Loritte, Charles Nguyen, and Andrew Soto. Mazda Motorsports funded the project and will be providing the MX-5 Miatas that will cross the US in 2017.

“This student team did an absolutely remarkable job on this project,” said Robert Hess, founder and president of the Cancer Journeys Foundation. “We were searching for a really unique project to highlight the importance of prostate cancer testing given the recent rise in advanced prostate cancer cases. We brought this idea to our student team and they just ran with it. The team came with an unbelievable level of creativity and energy,” said Hess.

“There are more than 2 million prostate cancer survivors in the United States right now and 240,000 men learn they have prostate cancer every year. Prostate cancer is highly treatable if found early but, unfortunately, almost 29,000 men die each year of prostate cancer because they didn’t know they had the disease early enough. The Cancer Journeys Foundation created ProstateTracker, a free Internet-based detection system, so that men don’t get caught with a late diagnosis,” said Hess.

According to Hess, “Road rallies are very popular and are a great way to have fun and see the US. The 2017 Tour de USA rally will be the longest road rally every held in the US. I'm really looking forward to taking my MX-5 across the US. I may even try and run the Dustball Rally."

About The Cancer Journeys Foundation

The Cancer Journeys Foundation provides support to cancer survivors during their cancer journeys and operates ProstateTracker.org, a free prostate cancer early detection system available on the Internet at www.ProstateTracker.org. The CJF also organizes the Tour de USA®, an annual cancer awareness relay ride across the United States to support cancer survivors. The Cancer Journeys Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit based in Manhattan Beach, California.

Contact Cancer Journeys Foundation:

Robert Hess

310.356.3872

Robert@CancerJourneysFoundation.org

1601 N. Sepulveda Blvd.

Suite 576

Manhattan Beach, CA 90266