DOCTOR Peter MacCallum is celebrating his 80th birthday tomorrow.The son of the founder of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre lives in Castlemaine and works as a GP, continuing a legacy left by his famous parent.His father, Sir Peter MacCallum was born in Glasgow but raised in New Zealand.He moved back to the United Kingdom and obtained a medical degree in Edinburgh in 1914, just in time to join the British Army in France.He later moved to Australia and in 1924 was appointed to the Chair of Pathology at the University of Melbourne.Typically, he soon directed his energy and concern to one of the greatest medical challenges - the fight against cancer.As chairman of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria from 1946, he was influential in the formation of the Cancer Institute in 1949.The first outpatient clinic opened in 1950 bore his name and the institute was renamed the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute - The Peter Mac - in his honour in 1986. He was knighted in 1953.His vision created a cancer centre unsurpassed in the world, where humanity, caring service and relentless research share equal value.Sir Peter MacCallum died in 1974 at the age of 88.