The UK National Screening Committee (NSC) has reached its decision on screening and the answer was largely that they don’t recommend it. Even for those at the highest risk. Black men over 45 who have twice the risk of white men and men over 45 with a family history who are at 2.5 times theContinue reading “Prostate Cancer Screening – Let’s look at the numbers”
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Review of 2025
HEALTH UPDATE 2025 was a strange year from a health perspective as it was plagued by minor illnesses and viruses that, individually, were something and nothing but cumulatively were a pain. The most important thing is I ended another year with an undetectable PSA and my cancer completely under control. I am truly blessed andContinue reading “Review of 2025”
To Screen or not to screen
I’m very much in favour of screening for prostate cancer, as you’d expect given that I was diagnosed with the incurable variety at age 60 and given a worst-case prognosis of two years. Being told that you’ve got cancer is devastating, being told it was incurable is indescribable. Then finding out that I’d probably hadContinue reading “To Screen or not to screen”
Review of my 2023
That was a year that was. It certainly started on a high but the ending wasn’t as great! In 2022 I set myself the challenge to attempt to run at least 5km every day for 365 days to raise money for the Move Charity, that later in the year I became a Trustee of. DueContinue reading “Review of my 2023”
Running Into Cancer 