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P For Prostate
An easy introduction to the prostate: a sex organ men need to know more about
The prostate is a small organ that can have a big impact on a man’s life.
- View P For Prostate in full below.
The prostate is important for sex, for a start. That's the first thing that may come as a surprise. But it can also create health challenges. For example, prostate cancer affects 1 in 4 black men and 1 in 8 white men.
Whatever your age, P FOR PROSTATE will explain everything you need to know in one easy-to-read booklet.
- Where it is and how it works
- What can go wrong
- Signs and symptoms
- Tests and examinations
- All aspects of prostate health
- Living with prostate issues
Don’t procrastinate. Know your prostate.
Written by Jim Pollard (with big thanks to our partners Prostate Cancer UK and Cancer Black Care) with cartoons by John Byrne, the 36 page full colour booklet is the perfect introduction to the prostate: a sex organ men need to know more about.
Men's Health Forum man manuals: men’s health made easy.
'I'd heard of the prostate but didn't really know anything about it. This helped enormously.'
The Men's Health Forum was a member of the now-defunct NHS England Information Standard but we continue to try to follow the guidelines the Standard set down. This means the manual is fully-referenced, has been peer-reviewed by our team of medics led by Dr John Chisholm, the Men's Health Forum's chair of trustees, and also road-tested with men of all ages. You can have confidence that this is a reliable source of quality evidence-based health information.
Advisory Board of health professionals for P For Prostate: Dr John Chisholm (Men’s Health Forum chair) Dr Su Wang (Men’s Health Forum trustee) Sara Richards (Men’s Health Forum trustee) Dr Annette Fenner (Chief Editor, Nature Reviews Urology and Men’s Health Forum trustee) Prof. Alan White (Men’s Health Forum patron) Prof. Roger Kirby (President, Royal Society of Medicine) Jonathan Kay (Prostate Cancer UK) Paul Campbell (Cancer Black Care)
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The Men’s Health Forum need your support It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking. In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to. It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for. We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing. Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.
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