Help us find the Missing Men.

On 12th March we launched an awareness campaign across national press called ‘The Missing Men’. These are the men who have not been referred/diagnosed in the past 12 months as a result of Covid.

The action we are asking is for men to follow an electronic 30 second Risk Checker 

We are encouraging to get men at highest risk of prostate cancer (men over 50, black men, men with a family history of the disease) to talk to their GP about their risk 

Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK, urgent referrals by GPs have dropped by around 52,000 since the pandemic began. As a result, around 8,600 fewer men started treatment for prostate cancer in 2020 than in the previous year.

Unless these ‘missing men’ are found, they risk being diagnosed too late, when their cancer is incurable.

Unlike other cancers, early prostate cancer often has no symptoms, so as we approach one year of lockdown, the charity is calling for those at highest risk of the disease to speak to their GP about their risk. This includes men over 50, black men, and men with a family history of prostate cancer. Since September 2020 over 128,000 men have completed Prostate Cancer UK’s online tool and given information about their next course of action based on their answers.