Malcolm and Jeannie Hohlt-Wade

"As Sam Wades grandfather and a prostate cancer sufferer myself I can not express too deeply my admiration for Sam and his friends undertaking to cross Canada on their bicycles to make people aware of the disease and raise funds for cancer prostate research.

Undoubtedly many people have heard of prostate cancer but regretably believe it could never aflict them or their family as indeed did I. Nothing can be more horrifying than waking up in a hospital bed with a doctor looking down on you and saying "You have prostate cancer". I assure you your world stops and life is brought to a sudden terrible halt.

Thanks to recent research which resulted in my receiving treatment with the very latest and effective drugs some nineteen months after being diagnosed, I am, although still on treatment, in recovery, leading a normal lifestyle and looking forward to the future,as indeed are many others in Canada, a future which would not have been possible but for prostate cancer research which is always looking for the answers to this terrible disease which takes so many lives each year.

Sam and his friends are giving their all pedalling across Canada in all weathers to make everyone aware of prostate cancer.

I ask that you support them by donating as little or as much as you can to their fund to enable research to continue so that persons such as I,or maybe someone near and dear to you who hear those terrible words, "You have prostate cancer "know that there is a future for them also, a future I am so lucky to have.

May the dollars roll in as the pedals go round."

Sam Wades Grandfather.