Our trustee, Professor Stephen Langley attended a meeting at the House of Commons yesterday, hosted by Prostate Cancer Research to launch a campaign calling for a UK-wide targeted prostate cancer screening programme. PCR’s latest report, ‘Prostate Cancer Screening: The Impact on the NHS’ proves a screening programme is affordable, deliverable and will start to level the playing field. At £25 million per year, and approx £18 per eligible individual, this is comparable to bowel and breast cancer screening programmes.

You can read the full report here: ‘Prostate Cancer Screening: The Impact on the NHS’

MPs Rishi Sunak and David Lammy gave impassioned speeches highlighting the need and importance of targeting men at risk: ie those with a family history of the disease or of black ethnicity.  Whilst survival is high when the disease is caught early, too many men are still being diagnosed too late, especially those at highest risk.

The initiative builds on our own Targeted Prostate Health Check programme, which has already tested over 18,300 men at risk in Surrey and Sussex and illustrates how such a screening programme could be rolled out across the county.

Once again, The Prostate Project is proud to be leading the way.