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Here at Prostate Cancer Research we are determined to provide a better future for men and their families. We fund world-class scientists and their pioneering research into prostate cancer, working towards new breakthrough treatments.

We support a science forward approach to tackling prostate cancer, but a patient focus is in our DNA. We involve patients in every step of the way to make sure we are funding research that is important to you.

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AI: Computing solutions for prostate cancer

Is your prostate cancer a tiger or a pussycat?

University of East Anglia

Hormone Therapy: Old Dog, New Tricks

New approaches to hormone therapy to keep it working for longer

University of Aberdeen

Hormone Therapy: Stopping resistance in its tracks

Investigating how prostate cancers become resistant to hormone therapy

Newcastle University Centre for Cancer

Immunotherapy for Prostate Cancer

Training the body’s immune system to fight cancer, for a future when advanced prostate cancer treatment could mean a single injection, with tiny side effects

MRC Centre for Transplantation, Guy's Hospital London

Improving Radiotherapy

Combining radiotherapy with other drugs to improve patient outcomes

University of Oxford

Modelling Prostate Cancer

Creating more accurate models of advanced prostate cancer to improve drug testing, speeding up developing treatments

European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute, Cardiff University

ProCASP: could damaging DNA cure my cancer?

Investigating why damaging the DNA inside cancer cells only works as a treatment for some prostate cancer patients

University of Cambridge

Prostate Cancer Stem Cells

Investigating prostate cancer to find safer therapies and better diagnoses

Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, King’s College London

STAMPEDE: which drug will work best for me?

Developing a test to choose treatment for individual patients

UCL

PTEN: Finding the off switch

Investigating the genetics behind the growth and spread of prostate cancer

University of Cambridge

The Spread of Prostate Cancer

Blocking PlexinB1 to stop the spread of prostate cancer

Cancer Division, King’s College London

Putting Innovation in our DNA

To make sure that PCR will have the most impact, we need to step back, analyse the entire landscape and evaluate whether what we are doing has the most bang for buck and is creating the best world possible for our community. This is just what we have done.

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Simply pick your activity, challenge your friends to get involved and raise as much as you can. You’ll receive full fundraising support, a team PCR t-shirt and a special medal on completion, and all the money you raise will go towards funding our life-changing research!

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Never underestimate the power of sitting in a doctors room with someone you love who is fighting cancer and hearing the words 'there is a new type of treatment available'.
Louise
PCR Supporter

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