The Battle for Movember

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Why Movember? Because in 2010 there were over 40,000 UK men diagnosed with Prostate Cancer and over 10,000 men died of prostate cancer. Thats more UK fathers husbands sons and brothers than have been killed in action since the second world war. Why Movember? Because we need to unite behind a memorable and distinctive cause to help raise awareness of issues around Men's Health.

Growing a moustache is hard to miss and kicks off many helpful chats about mens health - especially if people are used to you being clean shaven!

Men are not the best at proactive approach to men's health and neither is the human race - on average around 70% of cancer research funding is used towards breast cancer research - now awareness is high and most of us know know breast cancer is a killer disease with good prognosis if caught early.

Prostate and testicular cancer can also be treated successfully if identified early and dealt with appropriately. But still we don't have a good diagnostic test for prostate cancer and so far we only have oversensitive and invasive tests which are sometimes inconclusive and may result in unnecessary surgery with risks of damage to surrounding structures leaving men incontinent or impotent for life.

We need to fund more men's health research especially into prostate cancer because its the most common cancer in men. We don't even know if there might be two diseases here - one killer, one age related like your ears which just keep growing till you die.

Please support someone you know or love this Movember, or if you don't sponsor me to grow funny ginger facial hair like Biggles this Movember - click here to donate.


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