00:02Martin Fisk has spent a life raising money for charity.
00:06This is the perfect way I can use some really, really bad news for me and my family and rally
00:15the troops.
00:15Now each kilometre he walks helps a foundation, helping him to stay alive.
00:21Having a cancer diagnosis and cancer treatment is a scary journey.
00:26The Prostate Cancer Foundation provides specialist nurses around Australia, helping men navigate
00:32complex medical care.
00:33I'm having three different treatments.
00:37They each have side effects but they also interact with each other.
00:41She's across all of that.
00:43The foundation's nursing program is majority funded by the federal government.
00:47We have many men in touch with us who are telling us they're alive today because of the support
00:53they received by prostate cancer specialist nurses.
00:55Next year, $46 million of federal funding for 60 prostate cancer nurse positions is moving
01:02to the McGrath Foundation.
01:04Some expertise may not go with it.
01:07We have had a number of nurses in our network already approach us to tell us that they are
01:12looking for alternative positions.
01:14The federal government says existing nurses will have the option to move across to McGrath,
01:19keeping their location, experience and patient relationships wherever possible.
01:23Specialist nurse funding for 14 other cancer types has been transferred to the McGrath Foundation,
01:29part of the government's national all-cancer model.
01:32If we go to a more general model and lose that information, I'm concerned about the level
01:42of support that I will get.
01:44The changes come into effect from July next year.
01:47each other can discuss, however.
01:47.
01:48.
01:50.
01:50You
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