2 — Sunday, May 30, 1999 — North Shore News $31 Bob Mackin News Reporter NORTH Vancouver Reform MP Ted White is applauding West Vancouver businessman Jim Pattison’s $20 million donation to fight prostate cancer. “This is just a wonderful boost,” said White, an advocate for prostate cancer awareness, “Che (federal) health minster (Allan Rock) put ma measly $15 million over three years, He sitould he embarrassed.” Pattison pledged Wednesday to doraze $3 million a vear for the next six vears and $2 mil- lion in the seventh to find prostate cancer research and education at Vancouver General Hospital's Prostate Centre. Pattison’s privately held, diversitied holdings include auto dealerships, supermarkets, packag- ing companies, radio stations and billboard com- panies. But the donation is strict cash, he said. Free advertising on his media onisiets or other in- kind items are not included. Pattison said no close friends or family mem- bers have suffered from prostate cancer. “It's not just a local issuz, hopefully ic ll be good for the whole country if we can develop a centre of excellence for prostate cancer,” he said. “We'll have people from all over the country coming here to wy to help. That’s what the objective will be.” Pattison’s donation does have a condition: the foundation needs to raise at least $10 million on its own. The federal government committed $10 million in February. An awareness and fundraising carupaign is set for the fall, said VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation president Don Livingston. “It’s juse the kind of disease men haven’t talked about very much, but they have started in the fast few years because the incidence of prostate cancer is one in eight,” Livingston said. “Ie’s the most prevalent cancer in men. More people contract prostate cancer, but more peopic die of lung cancer, partly because we have learned to treat it (prostate cancer) better and identify it sooner, but we're a long way yet from having the ability to cure it.” edge pr: m prosiate More than 16,000 new prostate cancer cases sr reported in Canada last year. There were 00 deaths. Breast cancer, by comparison, was fagrosed in 19,300 women; 5,300 died. Rerween 1992-1997, AIDS research received 5203 million trom the federal government and breast cancer got $25 mithon, Prostate cancer received only $560,060. In 1979, Canada’s first AIDS-related. death was reported. Through 1994 there were 7,150 ADDS-related deaths. Dusng the same period, prostate cancer killed 52,000 men. fio phrto JIM Pattison’s $20 million pledge is music to the ears of Vancouver Genera! Hospital. White plans to to congratulate Pattison in a House of Commons speech this week. 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