A Stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis would stop most people in their tracks, but for Jim Walker, he used it as motivation to get fit and take on a challenging 800km trek while raising money for prostate cancer research at the same time. Jim set his sights on the Camino Santiago, an 800km walk on the medieval pilgrimage trail across the north of Spain. He felt the spiritual nature of the Camino would help him to keep a positive mindset about his diagnosis. If completing this extraordinary challenge wasn’t incredible enough, Jim also raised over $13,000 for APC! “I did a lot of research and had m ..read more

At 73 years old, Ron Dare loves keeping fit and healthy through regular sessions of tennis and golf, so it came as quite a shock to him when he discovered he had early stages of prostate cancer. Ron started experiencing health issues five years ago when he was having trouble with urine flow. His doctor informed him his Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) levels had risen slightly, which is a sigh of prostate cancer. The only treatment option available is invasive surgery because of the enlarged prostate, so Ron decided to decline treatment and wait and see, while continuing to monitor his PSA leve ..read more

Sadly, one in seven Australian men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer before the age of 75. The good news is survival rates are improving thanks to early detection and treatment, meaning long-term satisfaction is becoming increasingly important when making decisions about treatment. A recent study sought to explore this issue further, enabled by the support of Australian Prostate Cancer’s (APC) generous donors to inform future care. The project, supervised by Associate Professor Kim Moretti, head of Urology at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, surveyed more than 430 prostate cancer patients fr ..read more

Congratulations to Dr Philip Gregory from the Centre for Cancer Biology who has been awarded a ‘Beat Cancer’ Principal Research Fellowship and prestigious Federal funding to progress his team’s promising work into prostate cancer. This success has only been possible because of seed funding provided by Australian Prostate Cancer, as part of The Hospital Research Foundation Group. Seed funding is a critical step for researchers to advance ideas or prove concepts, which can then lead to bigger discoveries and larger national grants. Dr Gregory has now won funding from the prestigious National Hea ..read more