Please take a moment to browse our site, and learn about who we are and how the funds we raise benefit prostate cancer reasearch and education here on Vancouver Island. The Ride to Live team is once again gearing up for the annual Westcoast Motorcycle Ride to Live. Find out how you can become a volunteer, community sponsor, or how you can donate to help us reach our goal of $105,000
Every week, 2 or more men die on Vancouver Island of this disease. In 2012, an estimated 788 men will be diagnosed with Prostate Cancer on Vancouver Island. 114 of those men will die from the disease. Early detection and treatment improve the chances that men diagnosed will survive. The Westcoast Motorcycle Ride to Live raises awareness by staging huge rallies focused on Prostate Cancer. Extensive promotion of the event and its message, "Get yourself tested", is delivered through the local media and community-related events.
In 2010 and 2011, the Vancouver Island Ride to Live (VI-RTL) has raised $180,961. Total expenses over the 2 years have been held to $25,324 (14%). The balance funds education and research here on Vancouver Island. For example, in September 2011, monies donated to The Prostate Centre helped with Men's Health Day to fund PSA blood tests for men who wanted to get themselves screened for Prostate Cancer. 558 men had their PSA levels checked at a cost of $16,740. That cost was paid for by money raised in 2011by VI-RTL. 30 men were flagged with high PSA levels and were actively followed up to determine if it was indeed Prostate Cancer. Courtesy of early detection, those 30 men have a much better chance of surviving.
With your support this year, the Vancouver Island Ride to Live will continue to raise awareness of this disease and provide funds for BC Prostate Cancer research.
What's raised on the island, stays on the island.
Ride to Live, fighting prostate cancer on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
where your money goes
Fraser Hof, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at UVic, had Prostate Cancer touch his family at a young age. Now, he is the lead of a research team aimed at developing new treatments for the most aggressive, untreatable forms of prostate cancer.
Funding from the Ride to Live has been instrumental. "The funding from the Ride to Live that we received in 2010 was the first support to arrive in our lab that was targeted at Prostate Cancer. It was critical seed money that allowed us to make key early advances. Now, less than two years later, we have an entire team of UVic researchers devoted to finding a treatment for the deadliest forms of the disease. We have more recently received funding from Prostate Cancer Canada, and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of BC to expand on our early successes. None of this would have been possible without the support from the Ride to Live, which remains at the core of our efforts to eradicate this deadly disease."
Dr. Hof's team also gives back to the local community, taking part in fundraising and awareness-raising events and regularly participating in sessions with the Vancouver Island Prostate Cancer Support Group that meets at the Prostate Centre in Victoria. "We are most grateful to the Ride to Live and to every Rider who participates."
Join us MAY 3, 12pm at the Bob Wright Building at UVic for our 2012 media launch!
2011 survey
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Fraser Hof, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at UVic, had Prostate Cancer touch his family at a young age. Now, he is the lead of a research team aimed at developing new treatments for the most aggressive, untreatable forms of prostate cancer.
