Our Sole Aim: The defeat of Prostate Cancer
When prostate cancer struck Clive Bourne, then a 47 year old successful businessman, it chose an implacable and determined antagonist. Typically, he decided to investigate every aspect of the condition available to the layman, and revealed the shocking truth that no coordinated research organisation existed on either a national or international level. So he established the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation and launched a two-pronged attack on the disease.
First step: In order to accelerate research, Clive forged connections with the world’s foremost prostate cancer scientists and clinicians and linked them through an international forum. This unique Forum of leading scientific and clinical researchers now meets every two years to discuss and share developments, best practice and new ideas.
Second step: A panel of highly distinguished experts and lay persons was established to seek and fund the most promising, highest priority research projects.
Not only is our double strategy unique, but uniquely ours. Furthermore, we complement, rather than duplicate, the valuable activities of other prostate cancer charities. Indeed, facing an enemy as ruthless as ours, we need allies, not competition. Hence, for example we coordinate with other charities funding research at the Royal Marsden Hospital into genetic causes of prostate cancer.
A national and international force for action today, the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation Forum is internationally recognised as the primary reference for cutting edge research.