Canada has over 60 Prostate Cancer Support Groups that meet once a month. This Richmond group in British Columbia is founded in 2013 by volunteers and focused on providing help to Chinese-speaking men, but everyone is welcome. We speak English, Cantonese and Mandarin, meet on the second Thursday of every month from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Seniors Centre of Minoru Centre for Active Living (7191 Granville Avenue, Richmond, BC V6Y 1N9 Multipurpose Room 1 (1033)). Join us for the professional presentation and talk to other men and family members who have been dealing with prostate cancer for weeks, months or even years.

No registration is required and all ages are welcome. Please swipe your Facility Pass ($36/year for seniors 55+ or spouses) or pay a $5 drop-in fee at the front desk when arriving for each session.

If you want to chat one on one with a survivor, you may drop in our walking club. The Richmond Blue Walkers walk 5-10 km on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 am-11 am, along the beautiful river dykes and parks in Richmond (Walk in the Richmond Shopping Centre during the rainy days or cold seasons). Click here for the schedule or contact Daniel Leung at 604-836-6423 for the locations and meeting places.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation Canada accepts donations online, please go to http://prostatecanada.ca/ 捐款前列腺癌基金會請到 http://prostatecanada.ca/

此支援小組乃義工組織,我們講英語普通話廣東話幫助您了解良性前列腺疾病與前列腺癌的病徵預防治療康復與最新醫療硏究等資訊每月第二個星期四下午6:30-8:30在「明納健康活動中心」的長者中心多用途活動室1 (1033)

每次都需要在前台的會員證(55歲以上長者年費$36),也可以付$5的單次場地費

列治文前列腺癌友步行團「藍天健行」每週二和週四早上9時至11時沿著美麗的河堤和公園散步在下雨天或寒冷季節步行於列治文購物中心)。點擊查詢活動更新 打電話604-836-6423 (Daniel)

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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Vancouver Prostate Centre Quarterly Newsletter Issue 1 溫哥華前列腺中心季刊

Vancouver Prostate Centre Quarterly Newsletter Issue 1
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VANCOUVER | PROSTATE CENTRE
ISSUE 1
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Welcome to the first newsletter for the Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC). We will be issuing a newsletter four times a year to keep our patients, donors and community up to date and informed about our progress.
Prostate Cancer DNA Test Uses Small Blood Sample, Predicts Response to Drug
New tools developed at the Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC) are substantially advancing the possibility of offering precise, personalized therapies to effectively treat treatment-resistant prostate cancer, also known as metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
Detailed in a recently published paper in JAMA Oncology, VPC researchers have discovered a method for testing prostate cancer DNA from a small blood sample, making it possible to retrieve exact information about how the cancer is genetically changing and helping determine the type of treatment best suited to treat it at that moment.
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Researchers
Dr. Alex Wyatt
The Future of Prostate Cancer Research
New tools developed at the Vancouver Prostate Centre (VPC) are substantially advancing the possibility of offering precise, personalized therapies to effectively treat treatment-resistant prostate cancer, also known as metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
Detailed in a recently published paper in JAMA Oncology, VPC researchers have discovered a method for testing prostate cancer DNA from a small blood sample, making it possible to retrieve exact information about how the cancer is genetically changing and helping determine the type of treatment best suited to treat it at that moment.
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RESOURCES + INFORMATION
Prostate cancer is still the most common male cancer in Canada and the third leading cause of cancer deaths in men. Within our country’s aging baby boomer population, prostate cancer cases will continue to increase and threaten longevity and quality of life. That is why our researchers work tirelessly to understand and ultimately control the disease.
Clinical trials are an integral part of prostate cancer research and treatment. If you are interested in participating in research please visit our website.
If you wish to make a donation to our Centre, you may do so through the following registered charities: the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, the UBC Faculty of Medicine and the Urology Foundation.
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AWARDS and ACCOLADES
We want you to know what is happening at our Centre. We have amassed several achievements in the last 6 months.
JANUARY
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Dr. Mads Daugaard: Malaria protein shows potential as cancer treatment
The VPC’s Drs. Claudia Chavez-Munoz and Alan So received the inaugural Bladder Cancer Canada Research Grant valued at $5‌0,000.
Dr. Poul Sorenson was awarded the CCS Robert L. Noble Prize for outstanding achievements in basic biomedical cancer.
Dr. Peter Black wins EAU Best Paper on Clinical Research Award 2016.
Making A Difference
In February of 2‌016 several of our VPC’s most active members participated as two teams in the StepUpChallenge. The successful event that raised over $1‌25,000 for Prostate Cancer Canada. 
Drs. Michael Cox & Emma Tomlinson Guns published the prestigious Nature journal: "Oral simvastatin administration delays castration-resistant progression and reduces intratumoral steroidogenesis of LNCaP prostate cancer xenografts" is currently the featured article on Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases.
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The groundbreaking personalized oncology publication led by Drs. Wang and Collins, High fidelity patient- derived xenografts for accelerating prostate cancer discovery and drug development, is one of AACR's most-cited articles from 2014.
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Feb 4, 2‌016
TECHNOLOGY AND EXPERTISE ALIGN, RESULTING IN NOVEL POTENTIAL TREATMENT FOR LETHAL PROSTATE CANCER
License agreement aims to advance new line of drug therapy.
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Employment
Work at the Vancouver Prostate Centre
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Make A Difference
Help the Vancouver Prostate Centre fund research to find better treatments and a cure.
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Prostate Clinic (Patient queries)
Gordon & Leslie Diamond
Health Care Centre
6th Floor, 2‌775 Laurel Street
Vancouver General Hospital
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1‌M9
Phone: 6‌04 875 5003
Prostate Research Facility
Jack Bell Research Centre
2‌660 Oak Street
Vancouver, BC V6H 3‌Z6
Phone: 6‌04 875 4818
Fax: 6‌04 875 5654
FACULTY OF MEDICINE
Vancouver CoastalHealth Research Institute
UROLOGIC SCIENCES
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