You can help fight the disease that deprives so many families of their fathers.
With one in nine men developing the disease in their life-time, prostate cancer is the most common cancer among Australians after non-melanoma skin cancer. Shockingly, eight men die from prostate cancer every single day. Just imagine how many families will lose fathers, sons, brothers and grandfathers to this terrible disease.
Mater Medical Research Institute (MMRI) is fighting prostate cancer by developing better methods to diagnose and also treat the disease. Scientists are trying to understand the molecular events underpinning prostate cancer—how it starts and spreads around the body. They are hoping to identify the genes and proteins that can predispose men to develop prostate cancer; particularly the aggressive form of the disease. Scientists at MMRI are also looking at how a man’s own immune system could be stimulated to fight prostate cancer.
The ultimate goal of the research at MMRI is to develop early disease diagnosis and better treatments and, one day, find a cure for prostate cancer.
We’re Talking PC this September
Even though so many men are affected by prostate cancer most men don’t talk about it. You can help build awareness and help scientists find new ways to fight the disease by Talking PC this September.
All you have to do is get together with your family, friends, work mates, local sporting club or community group and organise a barbeque.
Please register your event here and receive a Talking PC information kit.
To register your event or to find out more about Talking PC, please call 1800 440 155 or email talkingpc@mater.org.au