| The Prostate Cancer Research Institute (PCRI) was | | | | of monitoring his PSA and a negative biopsy, in |
| founded in 1996 by internationally recognized | | | | September 2004 his second biopsy showed |
| oncologists Stephen B. Strum, M.D. and Mark C. Scholz, | | | | aggressive cancer. Dr. Dahl the set about to gain all |
| M.D. with support from the Daniel Freeman Hospital | | | | the current concepts in prostate cancer diagnosis and |
| Foundation in Southern California. | | | | treatment and opted for all four major treatment |
| The objective of PCRI is to educate patients and their | | | | modalities: androgen-depravation therapy (ADT3), |
| families about prostate cancer, including new advances | | | | radical prostatectomy, chemotherapy, and external |
| in diagnosis, staging, treatments and available | | | | beam radiation therapy, all of which he received in one |
| resources. PCRI believes that a patient who | | | | year. Now three year since the diagnosis was made |
| understands his disease and treatment is empowered | | | | he has an undetectable PSA, changed his diet |
| to communicate more effectively with his physicians | | | | drastically, and living every day. During these years of |
| and obtain a better outcome. | | | | therapy he wrote the book Optimize Your Life!which |
| The PCRI Helpline is support service available to | | | | has become an international best-seller ( . His current |
| people dealing with prostate cancer via phone and | | | | work-in-progress is Take Charge of Your Life...or |
| email. It is staffed by survivors of prostate cancer, | | | | Someone Else Will! which includes material on taking |
| some of which are physicians, but the focus is on | | | | charge of one's healthcare. |
| directing inquirers to information and not practicing | | | | In addition to the Helpline, PCRI works closely with |
| medicine. | | | | other prostate support groups, planning and presenting |
| Bernhoff A. Dahl, M.D. is the former Chief of Pathology | | | | eight national and regional conferences. It also |
| at the Eastern Maine Medical Center and co-founder | | | | maintains a powerful web site with a full range of |
| of Dahl-Chase Pathology Associates, which serves | | | | literature on prostate cancer, as well as a quarterly |
| twenty hospitals and laboratories in Maine. Although he | | | | newsletter PCRI Insights. |
| had no family history of prostate cancer, after years | | | | |