UPDATE - Issue 15 - September 2003
Enthusiasm of our Patron
If all goes to plan, as we have every reason to expect, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester will attend our annual Luncheon to he held at The Savoy on 15th October. Her intention to do so is an example of a mounting number of engagements that clearly show the enthusiasm of The Duchess of Gloucester for the support of our cause.
No sooner had Her Royal Highness become Patron of Prostate Research Campaign UK than she set off for America to see prostate research being undertaken at Cornell University's New York Presbyterian Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Her host on that occasion was Dr E. Darracott Vaughan.
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester
with Professor Roger Kirby and Mr Tony Kilmister
In April The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Institute of Urology in London to see work we are funding there. This includes the establishment and use of the largest database in the country of tissue samples and associated patient details obtained from over a 1000 radical prostatectomies carried out in the UK over recent years. This work was set up by Professor John Masters, who heads the laboratories and showed Her Royal Highness around. She also talked with Charlotte Foley who is carrying out research into stem cells which may possibly be the cells of origin of prostate cancer. If that turns out to be the case, further discoveries are likely to emanate from her work.
In early September our project at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield had a royal visit. There she was shown work which aims to improve the quality of diagnoses by providing enhanced images arising from ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging.
Before the year end Her Royal Highness is expected to host a spectacular event in London for us. This event in late November clearly shows what a hands on and committed Patron we are fortunate to have. We are deeply grateful.