DSFRS Prostate Cancer UK Fundraising
Golf in Talaton Society is raising money for PROSTATE CANCER UK
Participants: All family, friends and colleagues associated with men who have been diagnosed with this disease
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'Ignoring your prostate can be lethal. You can't see it, you can't feel it, and shockingly many men only realise they have a prostate when it starts to kill them'. Angela Culhane, chief executive of Prostate Cancer UK
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men with more than 47,500 men across the UK diagnosed with the disease every year – that's 129 men every day.
Every 45 minutes one man dies from prostate cancer – that's more than 11,500 men every year. 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.
Prostate cancer mainly affects men over 50, although men as young as 39 have been diagnosed with the disease, and your risk increases with age. The risk is even higher for black men and men with a family history of cancer.
Most men with early prostate cancer don’t have any signs or symptoms. It’s still a good idea to get it checked out if a man has the following symptoms even though they may be caused by a non-cancerous problem.
- difficulty starting to urinate or emptying your bladder
- a weak flow when you urinate
- a feeling that your bladder hasn’t emptied properly
- dribbling urine after you finish urinating
- needing to urinate more often than usual, especially at night
- a sudden need to urinate – you may sometimes leak urine before you get to the toilet.
Men over 50 should request an annual PSA test with their GP so any rise in PSA readings are assessed for the possibility of prostate cancer. A PSA rise can be caused by other factors which are not related to the disease.