CTV News: Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian men. Dr. Gleave, Director at Vancouver Prostate Centre and Head, Department of Urologic Sciences at UBC, spoke with CTV about the cutting-edge research and treatments for prostate cancer currently taking place at Vancouver Prostate Centre.
Vancouver’s Rod Senft is a prostate cancer survivor, and he also spoke with CTV regarding his medical journey in support of Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation’s Urologic Sciences campaign, which is raising funds that will go primarily to amplify clinical care, research, and education across urologic sciences including prostate cancer.
Key Facts:
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian men, with 20,000 diagnoses each year.
The Vancouver Prostate Centre cares for over 2,500 prostate and other urologic cancer patients every year, many of whom travel from out of province or receive virtual care.
The Centre’s Prostate Cancer Supportive Care Program has educated, counselled, and supported over 4,000 men and their partners since its inception in 2013.
Additional Information:
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation has launched their Urologic Sciences campaign, with the goal of raising $35 million. The funds raised will be used primarily to amplify clinical care, research, and education across urologic sciences, bringing improved care to BC patients in areas including prostate, kidney and bladder cancer, kidney stones, bladder and female pelvic health, kidney transplant, sexual and reproductive health, and adolescent transitional urology. With support from over 30 local business leaders and philanthropists, the campaign has already raised over $25 million.
Vancouver Coastal Health’s Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) is the provincial referral site for complex urologic care and the only research and training centre of its kind in BC
For over 30 years, the Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC) at VGH has received national and international recognition for their work in basic and clinical research. The team is now looking to build upon VPC’s global success to broaden their reach and impact across a full range of urological conditions affecting men, women and children. The long-term vision is to create a broad-reaching Institute of Urologic Sciences, comprising of a collection of research centres with different specialties, that will provide patients in BC and beyond access to the very best medical experts, diagnostics, therapies, research trials and state-of-the-art technologies.
Additional leadership donors include Beedie Foundation, Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation; The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation; Diamond Foundation; The Hill Family; Larry and Carolyn Hursh; Peter and Anne-Marie Kains; Jim Pattison, OC, OBC; The Jack and Darlene Poole Foundation; The Ritchie Family; The David Rowntree Family, Robert and Patricia Saunders; The Arnold and Anita Silber Family Foundation; Rod and Jeannie Senft, Chip and Summer Wilson and an anonymous private foundation.
For more information and to donate visit vghfoundation.ca/urology