The Prince of Wales Hospital Foundation, Sydney
- Total raised:
- $1,274,584.88
- Number of participants:
- 4367
Facilities
The Prince of Wales hospital treats approximately 1000 new cancer patients per year and 3000 ongoing patients. This second number over the years of their survivorship come to the hospital fewer and fewer times but the 1000 new then revert to ongoing patients. So we are always treating 4000 patients per year.
The radiation oncology department has two linear accelerators department treats approximately 70 patients per day 5 days per week.
The medical oncology department treats 30 patients per day with chemo therapy treatments 5 days a week and has outpatients department throughout the week.
The hereditary cancer unit investigates approximately 1000 patients and relatives per year.
The inpatient wards include hematology and the oncology ward plus the surgical floors for abdominal ,head and neck, orthopedics and neurosciences.
The cancer specialties include the following and patients as young as 17 come through the cancer centre:
- Head and neck
- Skin
- Breast
- Colon
- liver
- Stomach
- Brain
- Ovarian
- Testicular
- Prostate
- Lymphoma
- Cancers of the blood
- Sarcomas
- Plus very rare cancers
About
The Prince of Wales Hospital has just celebrated 150 years of caring for the community. The Prince of Wales Hospital is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the University of NSW and now the Lowy Institute for cancer research. It provides leading healthcare to our local community and a tertiary referral for specialist services in NSW and interstate.
The Foundation was established to promote and support this well respected hospital so it can continue to deliver excellence in care to the mums, dads, aunts, uncles, grandmas and grandpas who in turn, care for our next generation.
Dreams 2 live 4
Is a committee of the POWH Foundation, which was developed to help our patients with metastatic cancer realise their dreams. Whether it is to meet someone special, go somewhere special or do something special we make his or her Dream come true. By assisting these patients achieve their dreams, we are giving them a focus and on living a positive healthy life.