All those men have had prostate cancer?

Yep note they are all older men. In this day and age brothers got no excuse. Assuming they bathe ona regular, because it only takes a minute to check your balls for anything untoward. Assuming they have need for a good working penis.

Know too many older men with postrate cancer who can't have sex. From I hear that I check everytime I am in the bath. I intend to be playing a long innings so to speak.

DSP... and guess which male demographic is the last to receive critical early intervention? (go look in the mirror)

Did you know survival rates are pretty good if you catch it early on?

Interesting info.

@YJR I know the demographics.

FredB wrote: Unfortunately, "checking your balls" might help in detecting any testicular lumps but not in detecting prostate cancer. If a man notices that he'stakinglonger than usual and expending more effort to pass urine then he should go to his GP/primary care provider for a consultation and request a test called a PSA (prostate specific antigen). The levels of 'PSA' are usually elevated in patients with prostate cancer although they can also be elevated in benign conditions of the prostate that tend to affect older men. Whilst at the GP, they might also do a digital rectal examination during the consultation or refer you to a secondary care provider/hospital specialist for a more thorough consultation and to assess the size of the prostate.

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MarcusGarveyLiveswrote:

Prostate cancer is the commonest cancer in men in the UK, with over 30,100 new cases a year. The lifetime risk for being diagnosed with prostate cancer is 1 in 14.

However, based on the American experience, The Prostate Cancer Charity expects that African Caribbean men in the UK will have a higher incidence and mortality from prostate cancer than other groups. This is confirmed by data from East London, presented at the British Association of Urological Surgeons annual meeting in June 2003*. This showed that African Caribbean men are almost three times as likely to develop prostate cancer as white men.

(*Chinegwundoh F, Enver MK, Lee A, Ben-Shlomo Y et al. Increased risk of prostate cancer in UK Afro-Caribbean immigrants. BJU International 2003; 91 (Suppl 2): 16 (A79)



It would be interesting to find out the reason why prostate cancer is more prevalentamongst the African Carribean community. If fear or dislike of medical procedures or examinations is a cause for this, then it is something that will most definately need to be addressed. There was an interesting scene on ER a few weeks ago where 'Dr Pratt'came acrossa few older African American men at his local barbers.They allhad various ailments (including one man who had symptoms suggestive of a prostate problem) yet they all refused to seek medical advice. I think a good slogan for the prostate cancer campaign could be 'Embarrassment Kills'.

I know at least 4 men in my family all my parents age, (recently retired orgetting readyto return back home) who now have Prostate Cancer - all at the late stages.

Very scary. Brothers please check yourselves for ailments. Take a trip to doctors ASAP.