World Wide Prostate Cancer Coalition


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WWPCC Mission

World Wide Prostate Cancer Coalition, Inc, a United States incorporated non-profit organization (501.c.3), is a coalition of prostate cancer interest groups from around the world that seeks to share information, ideas, visions and dreams to minimize the impact of prostate diseases, especially prostate cancer, in the global community. In August 2008 representatives of major patient advocacy groups from the United States, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, England, Australia, Finland, New Zealand and the Western European group, Europa Oumo met in Geneva Switzerland to discuss the need for a mechanism wherein best practices in patient education, disease risk awareness and advocacy communications could be shared to facilitate improving patient care around the world. The group, which is a confederation of patient and professional organizations, will also serve interested organizations from around the world in helping to fulfill their objectives of patient support. The WWPCC will provide an environment and repository where interested organizations can access and share relevant information.
Prostate cancer is the 2nd leading cause of male cancer death globally and the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men. As the baby boom generation matures and other factors of socio-economic impact, such as lack of access to disease information, lack of insurance, lack of treatment protocol options, etc. more and more men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. While there has been some progress in disease mortality over the past decade, there still remains many significant disease specific issues relative to risk awareness, advanced stage disease management, treatment options, reduction and/or elimination of pain and suffering attendant to a diagnosis.

Contributing to the impediments against reducing the negative impact of cancer incidence and mortality are the following factors:
  1. The media tends to focus on the issue of screening versus the over-riding concerns for risk awareness, appropriate diagnostics, informed decisions on treatment and on-going management of advanced stage disease
  2. Physicians, engaged in the treatment and/or management of prostate cancer, often are not able to implement the latest, evidence-based, information in their practices because of lack of awareness or access to the detail
  3. Patients may not have awareness of, and access to, that information which will enable them to engage with their doctors to make the appropriate informed decisions as to their treatment
With this in mind, the WWPCC will, through targeted regional programs executed by cooperating member organizations:
a. foster information to educate men based on relevant patient-centered care;
b. advocate collaboration among professional organizations and local patient service organizations to support optimal medical treatments for patients;
c. encourage organizations around the world to pursue quality of life issues based on solidarity and mutual respect; and
d. encourage the establishment of patient groups by local service organizations.

The core objective of the Organization's mission is to develop and maintain an interactive matrix of educational tools and services that will:
  1. Educate consumers most at-risk from a diagnosis of prostate cancer and empower them to establish effective dialogues with their healthcare professionals;
  2. Inform the community on other diseases, such as [prostatitis], benign prostatic hyperplasia, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, etc., through educational symposiums for patients and health care professionals;
  3. Motivate consumers to make informed choices as to healthcare and lifestyle management;
  4. Lay the foundation for on-going health care information dissemination and interaction between the community and healthcare professionals;
  5. Create an interactive network to maximize broad scale, mass communications of actionable health messages; and
  6. Foster the development of local, non-governmental, charitable patient advocate organizations to empower their constituencies through implementation of replicable organization initiatives scaled and customized for the values, customs and resources of the local communities.

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