Can there even be a fundraising page without a sob story? Sometimes it's the hardest things we face in life that inspire us to drive change.....

So I'm running the 2025 Great North Run to help Prostate Cancer UK drive change (and I need any change you can please spare to help!) - for our sons, our brothers, our Dads, our Granddads and for all the men we love in our lives because they deserve better!!

Many of you reading this will know 2025 marks 5 years since my family sadly lost our beloved Dad (and amazing Granddad to our children) to incurable Prostate Cancer.

Not only do we know all too well as a family the devastating and lasting impact an incurable cancer diagnosis can have on a person and their entire family, whilst watching them fade away. - But, we're also aware of the mighty slap in the face, it can give you when - not only could it have been avoided with early diagnosis, but when the same, ugly cancer, cruelly raises it's head again just a few years later within the same family.

Just last year in 2024, my own brother (Chris) only in his 40s, received his own Prostate Cancer diagnosis too - just 4 years since we lost our own Dad to it. Fortunately though, Chris's was caught early, but only thanks to the awareness and knowledge he'd built up himself from losing our own Dad to the condition.

Prostate Cancer is now the most common cancer in England, yet why is it the the only major cancer to not have a national screening program? We need to help save our Dads, our brothers, our sons and all of our male loved ones - we don't want anyone and their family to go through what we have!!

Right now, men are left by themselves to find out if they're at risk and for them to understand themselves what to do about it - but there are so many misconceptions about prostate cancer that it's confusing, and what most don't realise, is that the cancer often has no symptoms until it's too late - people can often have it from their 40s onwards without evening knowing.

Losing my Dad to incurable Prostate Cancer 5 years ago is one of the hardest things my family and I have ever been through, yet all of this heart ache and my Dad's life could of been saved if a simple, routine prostate cancer screening program was in place.

Chris was fortunately aware of the facts, but sadly only through losing our Dad - it was this that helped him to get an early diagnosis, giving him a much much better and brighter chance ahead of him. And thankfully he's come through his treatment well and fighting fit.

But the system needs to change to help others have this same chance!!

Chris has done a lot to support Prostate Cancer UK, even amazingly doing his own pre-tratement running challenges to raise awareness and funds for the cause, but he's inspired me to take this baton forward and lace up my own running shoes....

That's why I'm aiding Prostate Cancer UK in their work on calling on the Government to overhaul outdated NHS guidelines so that GPs can start conversations with these men about their higher risk and the option to have a PSA blood test. This move will help to ave thousands of lives every year.

⏰ The earlier you find prostate cancer, the easier it is to treat.

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