The GFCT Blog

We are always striving to spread awareness about the importance of early diagnosis and how it can be life saving. Keep up with our news at the charity as well as industry-wide updates through our blog and social media platforms.


03/06/2019

Thank you!

03 Jun, 2019 |
We apologise for the delay in managing to sincerely thank our supporters including Martin Langdon from Wadebridge in Cornwall who's annual "Christmas Lights Spectacular " in his garden garden has become a feature of the towns Christmas celebrations. Martin has done this for a number of years and donates all the proceeds from his Charity Collection each year to good causes. Having been tested by us in the past Martin very generously selected us as the recipient for his 2018 extravaganza! [gallery...
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02/06/2019

A Change Of Name!

02 Jun, 2019 |
 Given the Charity has now been in operation for some fifteen years and has established its own identity during this time. Its title has been simplified to "GFCT". This certainly makes things easier when answering the telephone!
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02/06/2019
 One of the Groups we work closely with- PCaSO have been developing an online booking system which will hopefully not only make the bigger events more manageable but will also be a huge help in helping us uplift more details to the to our database. Look out for more on this in the future !!!
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02/06/2019
Indeed we have been flat out testing ourselves and sending out results for other groups. In March we sent out 4,048 results, in April 2,763 and in may it looks to be well over a thousand.
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19/02/2019
Kicking off the year with the first Statistics of 2019!#PSATests #KnowyourscorePlease see latest detailed statistics that have now been added to the Download section of our website: LINK 
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29/01/2019

Hello & Goodbye

29 Jan, 2019 |
We would like to say a big "welcome" to Naomi Chapman who has joined us as Event Coordinator and General Administration Manager with effect from 1st January 2019 to take over the role undertaken by Dave Skinner who left us on the 25th January to take up a role within the NHS Safeguarding team. The good news is Naomi has been working with us part time for some months, mainly helping Dave in getting out the PSA results as quickly as we can.Naomi has been known to me personally for over five years ...
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21/01/2019
Working with other groups we returned more than a staggering 28,000 PSA results throughout 2018 and now have a database of greater than 112,000 results since David Baxter Smith started testing in Kidderminster in 2004. Please do look at our statistics section for full details of all events held to date: Link We have, understandably, become victims of our own success and the current system of results recording has resulted in some delay with sending out results in the busiest period of the year ...
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03/01/2019
Happy New Year from everybody at GFCT. It's been another incredible year!See 2018's statistics below to see how we've supported men around the UK to become aware of Prostate Health. #knowyourscore #PSAtestsWatch this space for exciting developments coming soon from GFCT....Please see latest detailed statistics that have now been added to the Download section of our website: Link
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12/12/2018
You may be aware from comments made elsewhere on our website and on our 'Red Letter' of the importance we put on the PSA Free to Total Ratios (Where we have them).This information is supplied by David Baxter-Smith, one of our unpaid Retired Urology Consultant advisers. His latest analysis of the Free to Total Ratio against the number of cancer finds are set-out below.I'm sure you'll agree this makes for very interesting reading, particularly for those men with a Free to Total Ratio of 0.10 and b...
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07/12/2018
Further stats update to come soon .. We've been busy !See the full stats on our website:  downloads page
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