Prostate Cancer Awareness month

March is Prostate Cancer Awareness month

One of the best tools we have in the fight to beat Prostate Cancer is 100% awareness. That is what Clean up Prostate Cancer is all about so for the month of March I have challenged myself to do one thing everyday to spread the word. That is 31 activities and I’m really fired up to get the job done.

Day 1

Today I sent a copy of Know your Prostate to Jeremy Hunt. Why?

• Jeremy Hunt is a man.
• This year he will celebrate his 50th birthday. Though Prostate Cancer occurs in younger men 99% of diagnoses occur after 50. Though there is no universal screening programme in the UK the PSA is freely available on requests at local doctors' surgeries throughout the country for men aged 50 and over. The test reveals the reading at the specific moment the blood is taken. It is a sensible move to consider scheduling repeat tests maybe every 3 or 5 years. Talk with your doctor for his opinion but if he is reluctant or discouraging make your own decision.
• Jeremy Hunt is Secretary of State for Health. He controls financial distribution within the Nhs and leads on policy. I wanted to remind him Prostate Cancer is a significant risk to men's health.
• Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt is wealthy and well educated, many cancers are more prevalent among the poor and disadvantaged. Prostate Cancer makes no discrimination based on lifestyle or standards of living. It is a mistake to think because you are fit, eat well and don't smoke or abuse alcohol you can forget this disease.
• Prostate Cancer is a sly disease, it develops differently in virtually all cases. Too often, by the time symptoms become noticeable the cancer is well advanced and successful cures are no longer available. Forewarned is fore armed.