In 1998, the The Prostate Centre at VGH, now known as the Vancouver Prostate Centre, was founded. The Centre has become Canada’s leading prostate cancer research and treatment centres.

The mission of the Vancouver Prostate Centre is to foster the paradigm of team-driven translational health research to discover molecular mechanisms of cancer progression and therapeutic resistance, and to use this information to develop new services and products that reduce suffering, improve survival for patients with cancer and promote regional growth of biotechnology.