" The Lions Prostate Cancer Research and Treatment Project" is designed for the purpose of supporting the further development of medical services for the research and treatment of Prostate Cancer, Lions Clubs throughout Australia show their support by donations so as to purchase specific laboratory equipment.

Through our collaboration with theMMRI, this equipment will be established in their Mater Prostate Cancer Research laboratory, to help develop a immunotherapy treatment of patients with prostate cancer.

How? Dendritic cells are specialised white blood cells that initiate the body’s immune responses to foreign or cancerous substances.

The MPCRC team's goal is to extract dendritic cells from the patient’s blood, prime them to produce a positive response against the cancer (ie. destroy them) and place them back into the body to allow this response to take place, this means the body's immune system can attack and destroy the prostate cancer cells, in effect the body 'healing' itself, without invasive surgery.

This treatment is seen as our best chance to a cure for Prostate cancer now and for our future generation