The Prostate Cancer Charity Announces First Ever Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Main Category: Prostate / Prostate Cancer
Article Date: 23 Sep 2008 - 3:00 PDT

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The Prostate Cancer Charity is pleased to announce it is extending Prostate Cancer Awareness Week to a month long event.

The inaugural Prostate Cancer Awareness Month will run in March 2009, with a four week programme of events, partnerships and awareness-raising activities.

John Neate, Chief Executive of The Prostate Cancer Charity, said:

"This is an exciting development for The Prostate Cancer Charity and reflects significant growth within the Charity and the impact of the awareness event, which has increased year on year. In the past few years, in particular, we have established our successful Real Man Cup, secured the backing of celebrities such as Andi Peters, Kyran Bracken and Neil Fox and reached out to at risk groups through specific projects.

"Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men in the UK - one man dies every hour from this disease. Despite this, we still have a long way to go in terms of understanding the causes and identifying the most effective ways of diagnosing and treating prostate cancer as well as enhancing the public's knowledge of the disease. By giving ourselves - and those who support our work - more time to raise awareness throughout the whole of March, we stand a better chance of making more impact and reaching out to more people during the awareness campaign.

"It is a logical move to build the event further to enable us to spread the wealth of activities associated with it, as well as to give us more time to deliver high quality messages to the right audiences.

"The move will also offer support groups, healthcare professionals and volunteers running their own events more flexibility in timing them throughout the month.

"I am very much looking forward to the first Prostate Cancer Awareness Month."

Plan NOW and lend your support to the first Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

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INTERVIEWS: High profile supporters, prostate cancer case studies and spokespeople from The Prostate Cancer Charity are available on request.

Prostate Cancer Awareness Week was launched in 2002 by The Prostate Cancer Charity.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men in the UK. Every year in the UK 35,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer. One man dies every hour of prostate cancer in the UK.

African Caribbean men are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than white men.

The Prostate Cancer Charity is striving for a world where lives are no longer limited by prostate cancer. The Charity is fighting prostate cancer on every front - through research, support, information and campaigning.

If you have any queries about prostate cancer call The Prostate Cancer Charity's confidential Helpline 0800 074 8383 which is staffed by specialist nurses and open from 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday and Wednesdays from 7 - 9pm or visit http://www.prostate-cancer.org.uk

The Prostate Cancer Charity

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