2004: Celebrating Progress, Focusing on the Future

Fortune magazine calls Mike “The Man Who Changed Medicine,” stressing the changes he wrought rather than the checks he wrote: “Now thousands are living longer – and leaders everywhere are taking notice.”

As the organization measures a decade of advances and improved prognoses for men and their families, a PCF-funded researcher receives the field’s highest honor.

Ten years into PCFs mission, prostate cancer rates were dropping: Not only had annual deaths decreased from 44,000 annually to 30,000, but the wave of expected increases from aging Baby Boomers hadn’t materialized.

The story of the first ten years of PCF is told in the 2004 book A Call to Action [link].

PCF-supported researcher Aaron Ciechanover, of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on protein degradation.