The Melbourne Prostate Institute (MPI) is a service of the WBRC run in conjunction with Alfred Urological Surgeons. It is a service provided for men with localised prostate cancer. It offers a "multi-modality" advice- and treatment-team to give the best possible evaluation, and advice about the treatment options available for men with localised prostate cancer, and then to facilitate the expert application of the selected treatment.

The MPI comprises four Urological Surgeons with extensive expertise in all surgical aspects of care for prostate cancer, and three WBRC radiation oncologists expert in radiation treatments for prostate cancer. This combination of experienced professionals working as a team means that men can be helped by advice from people who are deeply familiar with the advantages and disadvantages of all the curative approaches to the care of prostate cancer.

The medical staff however only make up a small proportion to the "team": the MPI runs with the hardworking staff from other health care disciplines working together as a team for our men. The is an MPI nurse, Ms Deborah Stokes, who is expert in looking after all the nursing side of prostate cancer, as well as being an essential guide for men as they progress through the series of tests and consultations they might become involved with. The WBRC physics staff are essential in providing all the physics back-up, support, and advice about the advanced radiation physics that is used in external beam or brachytherapy for prostate cancer. The radiation therapists are at the forefront for men who have treatment with the MPI with brachytherapy, helping the radiation oncologists and urologists during all of the practical aspects of their care. They are also involved in the background working with the physicists in designing and preparing optimum brachytherapy plans for our men. Finally data-management staff, clerical, administration, and research staff form an often invisible, but an essential "back-office" function for the MPI.

Together since 1998, this group now is among the most experienced in Australia. In the last few years it has become at times the busiest seed implant group in the country. This means that, for men who seek advice from the MPI, they not only have the contribution from doctors widely experienced in surgery and beam radiation for prostate cancer, but if they decide to have brachytherapy they can be confident they are in world-class hands.