

TIME TO HELP RELEGATE PROSTATE CANCER
We’re after your support to help get one over prostate cancer!!
- Prostate cancer is the number one diagnosed male cancer
- 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed in their life, 1 in 4 black men
- That’s over 50,000 dads, husbands, brothers, grandads, uncles and mates diagnosed in the UK every year
- Around 12,000 will die from prostate cancer every year
However, if caught early prostate cancer is very treatable:
To find out about your risk in 30 seconds visit prostatecanceruk.org/riskcheck
PAUL’S STORY:
I’m 59 years old, in March 21 I became;
- one of the 50,000 men diagnosed every year and
- sadly one of 10,000 men diagnosed too late every year to be cured.
So despite having no obvious symptoms my cancer is aggressive, advanced and incurable. My prognosis was that I have 5-8 years to live.
However I am very lucky, had I not been tested when I was my prognosis would have been much worse. My prognosis has also given me a very clear and positive focus that most people are never lucky enough to have.
That focus is now on creating great memories (3 amazing years!) whilst driving awareness of this disease and to raise vital funding for research in to better screening and treatments. My hope is that through this I can help prevent some men and their families going through the same journey that my family are.
When I was diagnosed I set myself a challenge of walking 25 million steps (the equivalent of 11,500 miles or from here to New Zealand) over 5 years. I’ve also taken on several more big physical challenges, tough as my treatment means I have almost no testosterone - The Yorkshire 3 Peaks (25 miles, 5000 feet of ascent in under 10 hours), a 43 mile all day walk, 3 walking marathons in 3 days, a 7 hour cross trainer challenge and the Jeff Stelling 26 mile marathon march from Wembley to Wycombe Wanderers. Its amazing what you can achieve when you focus on what you can influence and not what you can’t
Pease visit our table at Champion Hill for more info, for a great raffle and to show your support