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Newport Lions Prostate Cancer Awareness Event 2015

Prostate Cancer Awareness Event 2015

Author | 29 September 2015

Newport Lions Club and local nurse Julie Rich are holding their fourth Annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Event on the evening of Monday 5th October 2015 at Cosy Hall in Newport.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. With 37,000 cases diagnosed in the UK each year. It is the second most common cause of cancer deaths. Four out of ten men who are seventy years or older will have prostate cancer.

The prostate is a walnut sized gland found only in men, and is positioned just below the bladder and surrounds the tube known as the urethra which passes urine from the bladder to the outside of the body.

Some symptoms of prostate problems, which are usually caused by benign disease, not prostate cancer are; Difficulty or pain in passing urine, having to rush to the toilet to pass urine, frequent visits to the toilet, especially at night, starting and stopping while urinating and a feeling of not having emptied the bladder.

What tests are there for Prostate cancer?

A small sample of blood is taken from a vein in your arm and sent to a laboratory to measure the level of PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) micrograms per litre. But only one in four men with a PSA level of between four and ten milligrams per litre have prostate cancer.

Your doctor will ask you how you feel. You may have a rectal examination, urine test depending on what is found. You may be sent to hospital for further investigations, to see a urologist and offered an MRI scan, bone scan or biopsy. A high PSA does not necessarily mean you have cancer, nor does a lower level mean you do not.

As of Monday 5th October 2015, Newport Lions, myself, professional phlebotomists and Mr David Baxter Smith, a consultant Urologist will deliver our 4th PSA Testing Event at The Cosy Hall, Newport. Mr Baxter Smith advocates all men over aged over 50 should have an annual PSA test. Not all GP’s offer this.

Men requesting the test will complete a pro forma, a blood test taken and Mr Baxter Smith will write to every man within a fortnight, advising them on their result and any appropriate action that should be taken. Members of Newport Lions Club, myself and Mr Baxter Smith have all lost close family members due to prostate cancer not being identified early to make a difference.

Although the test is free on the evening, men can make a donation. The estimated cost of the PSA test for 300 men, is £3,500. If there are any businesses or persons wishing to make a donation or require any further information, please contact me on 01952 820625 or Peter Sterling at pete.sterling@virgin.net

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