{"id":8451,"date":"2020-09-29T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=277"},"modified":"2020-09-29T12:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:22:51","slug":"rbwh-foundation-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/newsletters\/news-at-the-royal\/rbwh-foundation-update","title":{"rendered":"RBWH Foundation update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-329 size-fusion-200 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/10\/rbwh-foundation-f-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/133;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ImmunoPro project brings together an outstanding team of internationally recognised researchers, including Emeritus Professor Robert (\u2018Frank\u2019) Gardiner and RBWH urologists Dr Matthew Roberts and Associate Professor John Yaxley.<\/p>\n<p>The team is working to develop a therapeutic vaccine tailored to each prostate cancer patient. The therapeutic vaccine would use immunotherapy, post-prostatectomy, to enhance and increase the patient\u2019s own cancer-fighting cells, reducing the need for radiation and hormone therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The therapy will be developed to treat the third of all prostate cancer patients who have prostate cancer return after initial treatment, resigning them to radiation or hormone therapy, both of which can have debilitating side-effects.<\/p>\n<p>The ImmunoPro therapy has the potential to be extended to men in other advanced stages of prostate cancer, such as after initial radiotherapy, which is difficult to treat.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some shocking prostate cancer statistics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One in 7 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer by the age of 85.<\/li>\n<li>While it is more common in older men, younger men also get prostate cancer, with 37% of cases diagnosed in men under 65.<\/li>\n<li>More men die of prostate cancer than women die of breast cancer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To donate or find out more about this RBWH led research visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fundraise.rbwhfoundation.com.au\/donate-for-prostate\">https:\/\/fundraise.rbwhfoundation.com.au\/donate-for-prostate<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donate for Prostate campaign supports RBWH-led research. Following on from the RBWH Foundation Coronavirus Action Fund campaign, September\u2019s International Prostate Cancer Awareness Month saw the Foundation launch a fundraising campaign for RBWH-led research into a prostate cancer therapeutic vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[194],"class_list":["post-8451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-at-the-royal","tag-rbwh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>RBWH Foundation update - Staff Extranet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RBWH Foundation update - Staff Extranet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Donate for Prostate campaign supports RBWH-led research. 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