Professor Stephen Langley, one of our Trustees and Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Royal Surrey, presented at the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prostate Cancer Screening in Portcullis House last week.
He shared the impressive results from the Targeted Prostate Health Check programme delivered in partnership with the Surrey and Sussex Cancer Alliance and Medefer. This pilot successfully identified men in the Surrey and Sussex region who had prostate cancer and who failed to be detected during the Covid era.
From 1842 text messages inviting 1549 people, 544 men consented to a PSA check. From 500 phlebotomy appointments, 485 (30% of invited men) took the PSA test of whom 68 (14%) were referred with an elevated PSA. After clinical review with multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI), 22 patients underwent transperineal biopsies, and prostate cancer was detected in 18 men of whom 17 (95%) had clinically significant cancer.
The Targeted Prostate Cancer Health Check system identified men at risk without burdening primary care. Awareness on prostate cancer risk was raised in 1549 invited men, half of whom were further educated via the registration website. One third of invited men were checked in whom clinically significant prostate cancer was found in 3.5%.
The full report will now be circulated to all APPG members. We’re proud to support work that brings #ProstateCancerAwareness and action to the heart of Parliament.
