How you can help the Prostate Cancer Charity

One always feels extra sorry for celebrities when they get cancer, and Andrew Lloyd Weber is the latest one to have the press enquiring into his medical history.

However, it’s an ill wind …….. as the old saying goes, and comes after a month when people started to ask why so much attention was paid to Breast Cancer, and so little to Prostate, which also needs funding for research and development.

The Prostate Cancer Charity’s Chief Executive, John Neate, said: “Historically prostate cancer has suffered from a legacy of neglect, which still needs to be urgently addressed. The profile of prostate cancer has increased over recent years and has attracted new scientific interest, attempting to answer important research questions about the disease and its progression.

“Progress on reducing the mortality rate of men with prostate cancer is firmly on the research agenda.

Critically important is the need to develop a new generation test capable of distinguishing between aggressive and slow-growing forms of prostate cancer. This could form the basis for a national screening programme and would enable treatment to be focussed on those men for whom prostate cancer presents a serious risk to health. The Charity will undertake a number of actions to progress this, including lobbying for increased research into a new diagnostic test and prostate cancer prevention, as well as investing more in its own research programme. The Charity has invested more than £7 million in research since it was established in 1996 and we are looking to further our investments each year.”

So Andrew Lloyd Weber’s high profile foray in to treatment might be of some benefit to others, if reading about this type of cancer encourages people to make a donation to The Prostate Cancer Charity.  http://www.prostate-cancer.org.uk/donate/donate.asp