PROSTATE cancer may be the most common cancer in men, but it’s also the most survivable...
if you catch it early. The disease has been dubbed the “silent killer” as men with early stage prostate cancer often don’t experience symptoms – yet finding it at this stage is key to effective treatment. So don’t watch and wait for signs.
One in eight men get prostate cancer, and for black men their risk is double. More than 52,000 men are diagnosed with the disease every year, and just over 10,000 are diagnosed at a late stage (stage 4). That’s why checking your risk of prostate cancer is crucial: the quicker it is detected, the better the chance of successful – and less invasive – treatment.
And to help, Prostate Cancer UK, the country’s leading men’s health charity, has devised an online risk checker that takes just 30 seconds so you can see if you might want a chat with your GP about a quick and simple blood test. However, there’s also a major barrier stopping men from talking about prostate cancer and being tested. Don’t worry about the ‘finger check’ – the best way to check for prostate cancer is a simple blood test Prostate Cancer UK commissioned a survey of 1,302 men aged 50-70 to discover what’s putting them off prostate cancer checks.
Despite all the people sampled being at higher risk of having the disease, almost half of them – some 46 per cent – thought they would need a rectal exam to check for prostate cancer, and this was one of the.
