Help beat
Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is the most common form of internal cancers
in Australian men, affecting 16,000 males every year.
Sadly, 3,000 will die from the disease each year.
Why We Need Your Support
Why
A greater understanding of prostate cancer, its symptoms, the various treatment options and their short and long-term side effects is vital to protecting our husbands, fathers, grandfathers, brothers and mates from this deadly disease.
That is why your support is so important, to help progress more research into prostate cancer and save more lives.
The South Australian Prostate Cancer Registry captures the diagnosis, treatment, quality of life and mortality data from men diagnosed with prostate cancer – which is crucial for this research. It contains the data of more than 18,000 men – and is the longest running registry in Australia!
But it cannot operate without the support of the community.
By making a generous donation today, you will be able to help our oncologists and urologists provide more accurate, research-informed recommendations to the men we love who are faced with a prostate cancer diagnosis.
Do you want to help stop prostate cancer affecting the men we love?
How Your Support Helps
Your support will help Dr Kerri Beckmann create a prostate cancer “report card” which clearly outlines the outcomes of various treatments to help prostate cancer patients and their families make more informed choices.
The report card will evaluate survival, cancer recurrence, secondary treatment and impacts on urinary, bowel and sexual function for different treatments based on the experiences of men previously diagnosed with prostate cancer.
“Treatment decisions for men with prostate cancer are complex. Options include surgery, radiotherapy, active surveillance and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), or a combination of these, with each having a different profile of benefits and risks,” Dr Beckmann said.
“The SA Prostate Cancer Clinical Outcomes Collaborative (SA-PCCOC), which runs the SA Prostate Cancer Registry, is pivotal to our work in being able to present a range of clinical and functional outcomes for each of the main treatment options for different risk categories.”
Dr Kerri Beckmann from the University of South Australia
Brian McGrath, prostate cancer survivor
“The doctors saved my life.”
Brian McGrath is forever grateful to the advancements in medical research which saved his life.
He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006 after his PSA levels hit 8.5. He was 64 years old at the time so he was able to undergo surgery to have his prostate removed, an outcome which proved lifesaving.
“Doctors told me afterwards it was a very aggressive cancer so if I’d opted to have chemotherapy and radiotherapy, I would have been dead in two years,” Brian said.
You too can help save the lives of men like Brian.
As survival rates from prostate cancer improve, the long-term outlook and quality of life is becoming increasingly important when making decisions about treatment.
A study made possible thanks to the SA Prostate Cancer Registry surveyed more than 430 prostate cancer patients from the period of their diagnosis to two years post-therapy.
Professor Kim Moretti said patients were more likely to be satisfied if their longer-term health was maintained, particularly in the prostate-specific areas of urinary, bowel and sexual function.
“Unique to our study were findings that men were more dissatisfied if they were experiencing hormonal changes, particularly hot flushes, breast tenderness and enlargement, feeling depressed, lack of energy and changes in body weight. This is very useful for clinicians to be aware of before and after treatment.”
Professor Kim Moretti
Does your specialist contribute to the SA Prostate Cancer Registry? Ask at your next appointment! If they do, you can feel confident they’re passionate about the latest advancements in prostate cancer care and are giving you the most up-to-date, research-backed advice!