Orchid Male Cancer, has funded an initial study of Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) to help prostate cancer diagnosis. CTCs can be detected in blood and can identify men who are at risk of more advanced prostate cancer. You can read more about the research here

You may have seen recent publicity about the increased deaths from a number of other causes during the Covid pandemic because of the delays in early diagnosis. Deaths from Prostate Cancer is up there with all the rest... with an increase of up to 53% being quoted. If that's right this could lead to an extra 6,500 deaths or so on an annualised basis.A scary thought. Our Home Testing Kit facility can help overcome this.Since launching in June we've already carried out approa...

Many of you will be aware of the publicity surrounding the increase in death from a number of causes such as breast cancer and heart conditions during the current pandemic because of the inability of the NHS to provide the required support at this time. Additional deaths from Prostate Cancer is right up there with them with an increase of 53% being quoted recently. Given there are already 12,000 or so deaths from this insidious disease a year this could add upwards of 6,500 men to  the statistic...

Like most Charities we've been hit financially by the Covid Pandemic though thankfully perhaps  not  as much as some. In this respect I'm delighted to announce we've now joined the Amazon Smile Charity giving programme whereby Amazon donate 0.5% of any purchases you make through them providing you select us as your nominated Charity. Given the move to more and more online shopping particularly during these difficult times this is a real boost for all of us and I understand it's already raised £4...

I'm delighted to report another two huge milestones in the Charity's history. Firstly we've now hit over 150,000 tests in conjunction with all the Groups we work with and secondly between us we've passed the 2,000 cancer find mark with that total currently standing at 2047! The new home testing kit facility is settling down well with over 1500 tests carried out in the first 3 months including over 70 Reds which will no doubt reveal a further 17 cancers or so in due course showing how important t...

A silver lining of the "Covid Cloud" has been the opportunity it's given us to launch the above which is a vision we've had for the last 3 years. The system is a mirror image of our traditional events testing system with all results being over viewed by a panel of urologists with the same comprehensive result reporting system as before. Following a 100 men pilot in June we've already received well over 1400 orders to date and have already found well over 50 reds in the first batches of returned ...

This is a headline taken from a recent article from the Birmingham Prostate Clinic addressing the "bad rep" that the PSA test has. It also goes on to say how the "revolutionary" MRI test can help to address the issues with unnecessary biopsies.To read the full article click here: https://www.birminghamprostateclinic.co.uk/2020/03/19/the-psa-is-not-a-bad-test-it-is-a-good-test-properly-used/

There can't have been many "silver linings" to the storm clouds created by Covid 19 but a small chink of light for us is the time it's given us to finalise and launch a home testing kit option.For a long time we've been aware of the fairly major weakness in our armoury whereby men have been denied easy access to a test, often because for sound logistical reasons we can only visit certain venues once a year and sadly this often means men missing it through various unavoidable reasons.We were on t...

A new blood test being described as a liquid biopsy has showed strong potential as an alternative to a traditional biopsy, and could show the likelihood a patient has of recovering as well as potentially showing how likely a patient is to relapse post treatment.Covered her in ITV news: http://itv.com/news/2020-05-31/blood-test-could-predict-how-well-prostate-cancer-patients-respond-to-treatment/And read the original article from The Institute of Cancer Research here: https://www.icr.ac.uk/news-a...

"‘Game-changing’ prostate cancer test works in 15 minutes""Scientists have developed a “game-changing” test that can detect prostate cancer.The new 15-minute scan means people can avoid having to undergo rectal examinations, according to researchers.The prostagram treatment trialled by doctors at Imperial College London uses MRI, similar to breast cancer screening for women."This is the wording taken from Science Focus' article written by Alexander McNamara on the 14th May 2020 on a breakthr...