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The Forum History
What it is
The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation Forum is a biennial international summit meeting of the world's foremost prostate cancer specialists and researchers.
Delegates from the 1998 Forum, held in Holland
Why it exists
The idea originated in conversations between medical oncologist Dr Peter Wrigley and Clive Bourne, his patient.
Both were eager to accelerate the research effort and close the large gaps in available medical knowledge.
How it started
It was agreed that Dr Wrigley would co-ordinate a meeting that would assemble international specialists involved in diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.
The timing could not have been more urgent in the light of sombre statistics revealing that prostate cancer was (a) the second largest cause of male deaths from cancer and
(b) that the death-rate had not fallen in the last 50 years since androgen ablation became standard therapy for metastatic disease.
Launch at dinner
Over dinner at London 's St. Bartholomew's Hospital it was unanimously agreed that an international forum was the most effective way to proceed.
Seizing the unanimity and enthusiasm of the distinguished dinner guests, Clive Bourne offered to fund a Forum attended by interested specialists from all over the world to exchange information, ideas and suggestions and also to appraise colleagues of the latest available research.
Distinguished delegates from the first forum held in 1994
Distinguished Participants
Each Forum is attended by approximately 50 international delegates and all the principal speakers and participants are leaders in their specialised fields.
Future doctors are not neglected because we positively encourage the attendance of local students.
Ever since the establishment of the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation, AstraZeneca have attended and taken part in every meeting and provided educational grants to the Foundation.
The First Forum
The first Forum was held in Cambridge, England, in April 1994 and concluded with luncheon at the historic House of Lords in Westminster, London.
Attended by 43 delegates from as far as Kyoto University in Japan, the theme of this first forum was Screening vs Chemoprevention: pros and cons based on new views of its biology, early events and clinical behaviour.
