Lions Prostate Cancer Research & Treatment Project
“Most important message for men is to have a GP and get along to their GP at least once a year to have a checkup, even a basic checkup.”– Prof. John Hooper (Mater Research)
Prof. Kristen Radford & Prof. John Hooper “2min Awareness video” highlighting the Mater Research/Lions collaboration. Prof. John Hooper is a Mater Foundation Fellow and a Senior Research Fellow at Mater Research and leads the Cancer Biology Research Group.
Information resource material
Below are reputable organisations that provide additional information/resources
Please click on the Aust Government” website healthdirect graphic or go to healthdirect.gov.au for information on Prostate Cancer, PSA, Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy etc.
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) is Australia’s leading community-based organisation for prostate cancer research, awareness, and support.
Welcome to PCFA’s Online Community Forums – click on link
If you are a newly diagnosed patient and want to talk one-on-one with someone who has been through a diagnosis like your own, please call 1800 22 00 99 and ask to speak to someone from MatesCONNECT.
PCFA- Find a support group – click on link
Click on link to find your nearest PCFA Support Group, or call (PCFA) on 1800 00 22 99 for more support.
PCFA Prostate Cancer Support Groups bring together men and women who have a passion for helping those impacted by prostate cancer. Most members of the network have had a direct experience of prostate cancer, either as a patient or a partner and family member.
Prostate Cancer Counselling Service– click on link
PCFA Publications and resources – click on link
PCFA has developed a range of evidence-based resources to assist men, their partners and families following diagnosis of prostate cancer, and to help raise awareness of prostate cancer in the wider community.
“Printable Information booklets” – downloadable pdf – click on brochure picture
Please click on relevant brochure picture to download printable “Information booklet” in pdf format.
“Printable Information booklets“ in downloadable pdf format – please click on brochure picture.
IT’S A BLOKE THING FOUNDATION is based in Toowoomba and has a nurse educator that periodically will visit Men’s Sheds, Corporates, Business & Community organisations in SW/Western Qld. To ascertain if the nurse educator would be visiting a specific region “West of the Great Divide“, please contact them direct at www.itsablokething.com.au
I felt it important to feature them on the website, due to their “awareness and education” programs in rural & remote parts of Western Qld.
“IT’S A BLOKE THING FOUNDATION” is not affiliated with Lions Prostate Cancer Research & Treatment Project and not affiliated with Mater Research.
The Cancer Council
Prostate Cancer | Causes, Symtom & Treatments (Click on link)
What is Prostate cancer? Find out about the symptoms, causes, treatment options and more.
Get the facts from Cancer Council here.
For awareness purposes, we have included a link to the “Understanding Prostate Cancer” booklet, as issued by the Cancer Council – (current @ Sept 2025)
Prostate Cancer UK
Prostate Cancer UK have some really good resource material. Please have a look at their “Prostate Information and Support” page.
Here is a link to their Publications page, and they do have some free publications in a downloadable pdf format.
I have found the article on High dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy particularly enlightening.
Lions Prostate Cancer Research & Treatment Project
P O Box 42, Holland Park Qld 4121
Project Chairman – Lion Patrick O’Donoghue
email address prostatedist201@gmail.com
Host Lions Club: Lions Club of Brisbane Holland Park Inc
Lions Prostate Cancer Research & Treatment Project 