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Fund more research. Leave nothing to chance.

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Too many men are diagnosed by chance. Our TV appeal is based on real stories and will help us reach more men at risk. It will raise awareness of prostate cancer and raise vital funds to help drive forward research . We want to improve earlier diagnosis and stop men dying too soon.

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Too often men are being diagnosed with prostate cancer by chance. It shouldn’t be this way.

12,000 men die of prostate cancer every year. That’s one man every 45 minutes. Most men with early prostate cancer don’t have any symptoms and with no screening program, too often a man’s prostate cancer diagnosis is being picked up by chance. Men like Paul – read his story below - go to their GP with something unrelated, and a blood test picks up the markers for prostate cancer.

It shouldn’t be like this.

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Paul’s diagnosis

Paul is a 63-year-old father of four who was diagnosed, quite by chance, with prostate cancer in 2021. A chance blood test after a foot injury raised alarm bells with his doctor. It was Paul’s story, and too many others like his, that inspired our TV appeal.
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A consultant’s story

Mr Noël is a Consultant Urological & Robotic Prostate Surgeon. Too often he sees men with advanced prostate cancer which could have been picked up earlier.
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Transforming diagnosis

Read about our work to find better diagnostic procedures as a step to a national screening programme. We're working with researchers at University College London to test new imaging techniques.
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Will you help fund research to leave no diagnosis to chance?

Over the last two decades we’ve funded and accelerated some of the biggest breakthroughs in prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment. There is still much work to do. If you can, please give a gift today and help fund research that will improve earlier diagnosis to stop men dying too soon.

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2023 Brand Risk Checker

Save a life. Share our Risk checker with a man you know

1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer. If you’re over 50, or you’re black, or your dad or brother had it, you’re at even higher risk. Prostate cancer is not always life-threatening. But when it is, the earlier you catch it the more likely it is to be cured.

Don’t leave it to chance.

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