40 m. ago New prostate cancer saliva test you can do at home without doctor will work for half population

Around 55,000 cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed each year in the UK. Some 12,000 men in the UK die from the disease each year, according to Cancer Research UK figures

Science

21 h. ago WES STREETING: Brave men like Sir Chris Hoy have spoken out about the diagnosis no one wants to hear. Now the Government must act on their words

I am so grateful to the courage shown by Sir Chris and every man who's stepped up to speak out. Having been through kidney cancer myself, I know how difficult it can be to say those words.

Politics

22 h. ago A national prostate cancer screening programme is a step closer after Wes Streeting supports plan and orders review in major boost to Mail's campaign to save lives

The health secretary told MPs he would like to see the NHS proactively offer men tests for the disease in a move that could prevent thousands of needless deaths.

Politics

26 h. ago Streeting signals support for prostate screening if backed by evidence

The UK’s National Screening Committee is currently assessing whether or not a national screening programme should be rolled out.

Politics

34 h. ago Wes Streeting signals support for national prostate cancer screening programme as Health Secretary hails Mail's 'really important' campaign to save lives

The health secretary said he is 'particularly sympathetic' to the arguments being made for the need to proactively offer tests to men at highest risk of the disease.

Society

44 h. ago Scandal of NHS prostate cancer postcode lottery: Thousands of men at greater risk of death as 96 trusts fail to meet target to start treatment, forcing hundreds to wait months for care

To maximise survival chances, the NHS should diagnose the disease and start patients' treatment within 62 days of them being referred by a doctor.

Events

45 h. ago THOUSANDS of men with prostate cancer are at increased risk of early death due to scandalous postcode lottery

To maximise survival chances, the NHS should diagnose the disease (pictured, file photo) and start treatment within 62 days of a patient being referred by a doctor.

Events

2 d. ago Me and my father were both diagnosed with prostate cancer: This is why screening would benefit those most at risk

Mr Charles, 67, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of the disease shortly after retiring as a risk manager in nuclear and radiation safety in 2017.

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3 d. ago Young men turn to private healthcare for prostate cancer screening as they are not eligible on the NHS

Over the past three months Britain's biggest online pharmacy has seen a 600 per cent rise in sales of blood tests that looks for signs of the disease.

Science

4 d. ago Jeep Run starting in New London on April 12 to benefit man battling prostate cancer

Jeep Run starting in New London on April 12 to benefit man battling prostate cancer  Muddy River News

Events

4 d. ago ‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and living with cancer

After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too. The disease kills 12,000 men a year in the UK – a disproportionate number of them black. Now, in a bid to save lives, he is speaking out about his own diagnosis, alongside the doctors who successfully treated himSteve McQueen felt relieved when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had no symptoms, was perfectly fit, at the peak of his game. Yet the Oscar-winning film-maker and artist believed it was inevitable. After all, his father had died from it, and he is a black man. The statistics speak for ­themselves. They are as overwhelming as they are bleak. One in eight men will get prostate c­ancer. They are two and a half times more likely to get it if their father or brother had it. They’re twice as likely to get it if they’re black – and they’re two and a half times more likely to die from it, too.McQueen is here today with his urology specialist...

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4 d. ago ‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and getting cancer

After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too. The disease kills 12,000 men a year in the UK – a disproportionate number of them black. Now, in a bid to save lives, he is speaking out about his own diagnosis, alongside the doctors who successfully treated himSteve McQueen felt relieved when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had no symptoms, was perfectly fit, at the peak of his game. Yet the Oscar-winning film-maker and artist believed it was inevitable. After all, his father had died from it, and he is a black man. The statistics speak for ­themselves. They are as overwhelming as they are bleak. One in eight men will get prostate c­ancer. They are two and a half times more likely to get it if their father or brother had it. They’re twice as likely to get it if they’re black – and they’re two and a half times more likely to die from it, too.McQueen is here today with his urology specialist...

Politics

4 d. ago I'll never tire of stopping men in the street and telling them to get their prostates checked out: Soho House founder NICK JONES launches a major Daily Mail campaign

Three years ago Nick was diagnosed with a large and aggressive tumour on his prostate, which was urgently removed.

Politics

5 d. ago Grandad caught out by police yet again after £70,000 find promises 'there won't be a third time'

Paul Fleming, 60, who suffers from prostate cancer had previously been convicted as a drug courier

Economics

9 d. ago Wigan fan to cycle to 92 football league clubs in memory of late uncle

Matt Jopson will be raising money for Prostate Cancer UK and the Queencort Hospice where his uncle received end-of-life care.

Sport

9 d. ago ‘My brain reaches for morbidity’: inside the unsettling world (and 700 Post

He was a digital art pioneer, making himself an avatar in disturbing films. Now Ed Atkins has a new medium: the pandemic Post-it note. Ahead of a major Tate show, we meet the shapeshifting artistWhen he was younger and his parents were out of the house, Ed Atkins used to sit on the landing and force himself to imagine all the ways they might die. “My thinking was that if I imagined it first, then it would be very unlikely to actually happen,” says the 42-year-old artist.Atkins’ parents didn’t succumb to any of the ways he had invented. But during the final year of his master’s course, his father, Philip, was diagnosed with cancer and died six months later, during Atkins’ degree show, in 2009. “It’s a huge thing, obviously, losing your father,” says the artist. “And it started to feed into what I was reading and was interested in. His death, and death generally, is in all of my work.” Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Sir Chris Hoy's beautiful message to his children perfectly sums up Team GB cycling hero

Sir Chris Hoy first endeared himself to the British public through his sporting achievements and has built upon that support through the journey of his prostate cancer diagnosis

Politics

2 w. ago Sir Chris Hoy and wife supported as they share 'special' update

The six-time Olympic gold medallist was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 2024 and was told he had between two and four years left to live

Politics

2 w. ago Coleen Nolan's brother Brian issues health warning after cancer diagnosis days after sister's funeral

Brian Nolan, the brother of Loose Women star Coleen Nolan, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and has issued a health warning to men about the importance of regular checks.

Events

2 w. ago Coleen Nolan's brother Brian Nolan issues warning to fans after cancer diagnosis

Brian Nolan, the brother of Loose Women legend Coleen Nolan, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer just months after their sister Linda Nolan died from cancer

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