Prostate Cancer UK

Now, in amongst the news this week that there's a 10% chance AI will destroy all of humanity...

You might have seen some good news, and that is that Absolute have released the full line-up of comedians who'll be at the Palladium this year, raising money for Prostate Cancer UK.

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all the money raised goes to Prostate Cancer UK and as you've heard it is a cracking bill and will help deal with the most common cancer in the UK affecting one in eight men and that risk doubled for black men so please do get involved do a good thing come and have a great night and watch the end of my career right it's time for some AI chat absolute interactivity It's not catching on, is it? It's just not a thing, is it? No.

Hi, John and Susie.

We thought about this quite a lot.

One of the challenges with a trial like this, which we're very pleased to be funded by Prostate Cancer UK, is you put lots of scans in, you mandate them, it makes the trial extremely expensive and difficult to do.

And then also you've got to decide, well, exactly what imaging are you going to do? And, of course, trying to get people to agree on that is not necessarily easy.

The truth is these are people who the investigator believes has... responding a static hormone sensitive prostate cancer, I think we should trust investigators to investigate properly as these patients come to the trial and make a decision about whether or not that's the case.

Yeah.

Through, uh, Prostate Cancer UK, um, even though we haven't got them yet.

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But Friday evening, we had a charity night.

And that charity night was in aid of Prostate Cancer UK.

So that was on behalf of my uncle who passed.

And that was one of the reasons why we decided to pick Prostate Cancer UK as our UK charity for, not for the year, but since we met with Randy and he gave us an ice code.

So we managed to... to to amass with your help your help 2758 pounds which is fucking incredible oh it's amazing it's absolutely amazing um massive thank you to you guys as i look down the camera and say that i really mean that your help and using our code has enabled us to be able to to raise that money for charity and that particular evening um raised just over 7k so

it was fucking incredible

you mentioned this rapid climb to a senior position in a pharma company.

But then you opted later on to become the executive director of research at Prostate Cancer UK.

So what was the motivation for that leap?

So I'm going to be very candid and open with you and your viewers, listeners.

I, throughout my career, have been very strategic, but I've never written it down.

I've just kind of gotten on and done it.

When you're at that senior, and we chatted, to someone else about this recently when you're at that senior vps vp level in an industry people expect you to be able to write down a strategy and evidence it and put together a slide deck and all that sort of stuff rather than take over a department and crack on and do things justify a budget and no one had ever taught me to do that i never learned that and so i don't think i nailed it 18 months well maybe 12 months after i took on the role my boss got left the organisation in a bit of a hurry the person had brought me into the role which left me a little bit exposed but then there was a global reorg and my role was made redundant and I think that was absolutely the right thing for the business I think it was the right thing for me so I took redundancy didn't apply for anything else and I think Prostate Cancer UK was probably a mixture of two things.

I'd worked with a lot of patient groups over the years and really enjoyed working with them and was fascinated to go and work in one for one and just get a bit of a feel for what it was like.

So we lost Kev in May '23.

But back in 2022, uh, there was Kev and a group of us, Team Cox, that went up to the Prostate Cancer UK March for Men in London.

And Kevin pipped us to the post, he made it all the way round.

But, um, yeah, so Kevin wanted to carry on spreading awareness and getting men tested and getting guys talking about it.

You know, just things like that, like it happens all the time in the team and that's a really lovely thing to see.

I had a really interesting moment in, so we had our own staff survey, Prostate Cancer UK, results came back early this year.

And my department results were terrifying.

I saw them and I was devastated because some of the things in there around kind of how people feel safe at work and all that, they were really low, like amongst the lowest in the organization.