(WHTM) -- This year, more than 13,000 Pennsylvanians will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and nearly 1,500 will die from it. Proposed legislation hopes to help detect the disease early and save lives.

It's 99% survivable then.

"The screening tools are simple, such as a digital rectal exam and a PSA blood test, both of which are covered in Delaware," Nathan Diller, of Brandywine Urology Consultants, said.

Lawmakers in the Keystone State want to join the First State.

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"The costs are a lot lower, maybe ten times lower, when the cancer is not found early because there was no screening and it's metastasized," Jim Williams, chairman of the Pennsylvania Prostate Cancer Coalition, said. "Then it can cost $30,000 t

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