In fact, 74% don't know what the prostate does.
What are men missing?enough to put pressure on the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the penis.
But a survey of 2,000 adult men by Prostate Cancer UK found that only 35% realise that early-stage prostate cancer often has no symptoms, What’s more, 44% of men don’t know where their prostate is, and a whopping 74% don’t know what the prostate does.“It’s especially concerning how many men believe they’ll see signs of early-stage prostate cancer and would avoid speaking to their GP if they didn’t have symptoms,”“We know that prostate cancer doesn’t usually have any symptoms at all until it’s already spread and become incurable.
The survey found half of men wrongly believed they would be invited for testing without having to speak to their GP.that “instead of a national screening programme, there is an informed choice programme, called prostate cancer risk management, for healthy men aged 50 or over who ask their GP about PSA [prostate-specific antigen] testing”.being Black, being over 50, and having a father or brother who has had prostate cancer.
If you then decide to have your PSA levels tested after talking to a GP, they can arrange for it to be carried out free on the NHS. And if you have a raised PSA level, you might then require further tests.
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