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Monday, 21 March 2005 10:41 | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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A survey by the Prostate Cancer Charity found that many men are putting themselves at risk of prostate cancer because nine out of ten men do not know what the prostate gland is or does.
The survey found that fewer than half of UK adults did not realise the importance of the prostate gland and one in ten believed that both men and women had one.
Now the Prostate Cancer Charity is launching a campaign to improve awareness and the risks of prostate Cancer at the start of Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, which runs to 27 March.
They are taking the messages about prostate awareness out into the community, where men aged over 45 actually are. A targeted campaign will distribute specially designed beer mats and posters to pubs and clubs around the UK. Other prostate information will be distributed in supermarkets, bus stations, factories, community centres… ...any place where men are likely to be!
John Neate, chief executive of the Prostate Cancer Charity, said: "If all men knew what the prostate gland does, where it is and how it can go wrong it would help them realise that as they get older they are more at risk of prostate cancer.
"The prostate gland is now the most likely part of the male body to become cancerous, and one in 11 UK men is now at risk of prostate cancer”.
The prostate cancer campaign is supported by celebrities including the motor racing legend Sir Stirling Moss and film star Ray Winstone.
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