£10m+
Annual Expenditure
Founded 1996
Our vision is a future where lives are no longer limited by prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, with 36,000 men being diagnosed and 10,000 men dying from the disease every year in the UK. Despite its prevalence, it was until recently a neglected condition – the prostate gland is out of sight and out of mind. Compared with other common cancers, it received little attention from either research scientists or the general public.
Our mission is to change this. We were founded in 1996 by Jonathan Waxman, Professor of Oncology at Hammersmith Hospital in London, in
response to the urgent need to increase investment in prostate cancer research, and to raise public and political awareness of a long-neglected disease. We are now the UK’s leading prostate cancer charity, providing the most comprehensive range of services dedicated to this disease.
We are committed to fighting prostate cancer on every front – through research, information and support, and campaigning.
Our successes over the years have been numerous and wide-ranging. We have invested £9.2 million in potentially life-saving research projects. We have set up the only nurse-led prostate cancer Helpline in the UK, and won many awards for our free information leaflets and publications. We have also established Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, which brings together individuals and organisations every March to raise the profile of this disease.
Yet the need for our work remains. Seven out of ten adults still do not know what the prostate gland is, or what it does. The research we’ve funded has made many breakthroughs, but many unanswered questions persist – we do not know how to prevent prostate cancer, and we do not have a reliable diagnostic test for it.
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Hannah Richardson - Fundraising Manager
Tel: 020 8222 7143
Email: hannah.richardson@prostate-cancer.org.uk
Registered Charity No: 1005541
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