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Turning the tables on prostate cancer
In men, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in the UK. Every year around 52,300 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK, that’s about 1 in 8. If you’re over 50, or you’re black Caribbean or black African, or your dad or brother had it, you’re at even higher risk.
Prosate cancer is not always life-threatening. In fact, many people can happily live with a slow growing prostate cancer for the rest of their life. But when it is aggressive, the earlier you catch it the more likely it is to be cured. In fact, when detected early, prostate cancer survival rates are better than 98%. Find it late, and those survival rates drop below 26%.
Despite the consequences, and that PSA test relatively inexpensive, there is no national screening programme.
In the past the request for screening programmes have been denied because they are expensive and would diagnose men who might never have any problems (ultimately leading to over-treatment.)
Unfortunately, there are often no symptoms of prostate cancer until it has spread, and it is too late to cure.
PSA testing is simple, relatively inexpensive and it can help identify men with a raised PSA for further investigation. Finding out too late is not acceptable.
It's why we are trying to help drive awareness of prostate cancer, provide access to cheap accurate testing and are 100% behind the drive to implement a national screening programme.
Sign this petition to implement prostate cancer screening
For more information, support or ways to help spread the word. Prostrate Cancer UK have a wealth of really useful resources.
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