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Media Advisory - Prostate Cancer Canada celebrates local Vancouver Hero
Vancouver, British Colombia, April 16 –– Prostate Cancer Canada will honour the late Jack Poole, former VANOC Board Chair and local businessman, with the Local Hero Award. Jack was a generous benefactor to the Vancouver General Hospital and UBC Hospital Foundation with gifts totalling $3 Million for “Jack the Robot”, a da Vinci S HD surgical system, and a $1 Million gift towards the Robert H. N. Ho Research Centre. His lead donation attracted a further $3.5 million in donations including $1.5 million from Jimmy Pattison. Together these donations enabled VGH to become the fourth Canadian hospital to employ robotic technology in surgery.

Media Advisory- Prostate Cancer Canada celebrates local Calgary Hero
Calgary, AB, April 10 –– Local Hero Dr. Jay Lee will be honoured on April 11th at the annual Wake Up Call Breakfast, hosted by Prostate Cancer Canada, in partnership with the Prostate Cancer Centre. Dr. Lee is being recognized for his extraordinary contribution to the fight against prostate cancer.

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Research Strategic Plan 2012-2015

Significant progress has been made over the past few years to improve our understanding of prostate cancer. Many of these findings have resulted in improved methods to detect and treat the disease. However, there is still much to understand about the topic, including:

What is the exact cause of prostate cancer?
How can it be detected earlier?
How can prostate cancer be treated more effectively and with fewer side effects?
How can men and their families be supported throughout their prostate cancer journey?

Continued research efforts are important in all of these areas to provide the necessary evidence to improve prevention, detection, treatment and survivorship. With this in mind, Prostate Cancer Canada developed a Research Strategic Plan identifying key strategic priorities for research as well as the specific research programs that will be supported.

Over the next three years, the goals of the strategy are to:

Outline strategic investments in prostate cancer research that will have the greatest impact on the disease.
Develop innovative programs that build and sustain an outstanding Canadian prostate cancer research community.
Train and help retain the next generation of prostate cancer research leaders.

The strategy is shaped by the following principles. The strategy will:

Build on and leverage existing prostate cancer research projects and infrastructure in Canada.
Establish rigorous peer-review processes to ensure only the highest-quality research is supported.
Provide opportunities for provincial, national and international partnerships by being informed by the CCRA Pan-Canadian Cancer Research Strategy.
Develop robust evaluation indicators to assess performance of programs and the overall strategy.
Respond to opportunities that arise in prostate cancer research.
Achieve results that strengthen the ability to raise additional funds for research.

To read the entire Research Strategic Plan 2012-2015, please click here.

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