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.


05/05/2021
NEWS RELEASE 26-APR-2021Test could reduce invasive biopsiesUNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIANew prostate cancer urine test shows how aggressive disease is and could reduce invasive biopsiesResearchers from the University of East Anglia have developed a new urine test for prostate cancer which also shows how aggressive the disease is.A new study published today shows how an experimental new test called 'ExoGrail' has the potential to revolutionise how patients with suspected prostate cancer are risk-asse...
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27/04/2021
We are delighted to announce that the Research Project recently launched in conjunction with Manchester University is being sponsored for 2021 by GenesisCare.This sponsorship will help support us to recruit as many men as possible to the project from tests either carried out by us or our partners, over the past 10 years.WHO ARE GENESISCARE?GenesisCare is the UK’s leading independent provider of advanced and innovative cancer diagnostics, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and Theranostics. It currently...
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31/03/2021
GFCT JOINS GROUNDBREAKING RAPID MRI PATHWAY PROJECT!We are absolutely delighted we have now joined the above project headed by Professor Hashim U Ahmed at Imperial College.The programme aims to offer a fast-track prostate cancer diagnostic pathway using high quality MRI scanning techniques. It has so far achieved very encouraging results with a 40 to 50% reduction in the need for biopsy following a raised PSA score.Moreover, where biopsies are required, they take the form of the much safer trans...
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24/03/2021

NEW TESTIMONIAL

24 Mar, 2021 |
To the Graham Fulford Charitable Trust I am involved with a local Prostate Cancer Support Group and as a P.C.patient myself I had a need to order one of your 'Self Testing' PSA sample kits.I required a kit quickly as I had an appointment with a Consultant on a Monday morning, I quickly ordered a self-test kit (on a Thursday) hoping that it would arrive in time for me to do the sample, the sample duly arrived the day after - Friday morning!My next thought was, would I get the sample back in time ...
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19/03/2021

NEW TESTIMONIAL

19 Mar, 2021 |
Dear SirsThis letter is to thank you for my being made aware of this disease and as it was caught early, I am able to write this letter.When requesting a routine PSA test in 2017 I found that my GP was not much help and I found that I was queried why I had asked for a PSA test with no symptoms present and he warned me about the risk of treatment outweighing the benefits of early misdiagnosis and procedures due to the test.  I persevered and had the test done, citing the blood test taken at your ...
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16/03/2021
An article written by Laura Donnelly recently in the Daily Telegraph.Please click on the link for more information...https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/537/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/537/pub/537/page/31/article/150677
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01/03/2021
Published in UrologyJournal Scan / Research · February 27, 2021European Urology TAKE-HOME MESSAGEThis study prospectively followed more than 40,000 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (1986–2014) to evaluate the impact of diet on prostate cancer. In multivariable-adjusted models, the authors found that there was a 7% higher risk of advanced prostate cancer and a 9% higher risk of fatal prostate cancer in the hyperinsulinemic diet. When stratified by age, the hyperinsulinemic diet wa...
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25/02/2021
"We are delighted to announce that Retired Urological Consultant David Baxter Smith with whom we've had the privilege of working for the past 16 years will be playing a key role in the ongoing Research Project recently undertaken in conjunction with Manchester University. David has from day one had a particular interest in the importance of Free to Total Ratio's as part of the PSA Testing process and will be paying particular attention to this aspect of the Research. In order to give him time to...
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22/02/2021
Another landmark in our exciting journey. Please click here for the schedule for full details. This doesn't include finds from our Home Testing Kit initiative which has been well received in the County. We've now carried out over 5,000 of these tests, which we believe will form an important part of our armoury, even when event testing resumes hopefully in the Summer.
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16/02/2021
Support GFCTDo you use Amazon to do your shop. If so, Amazon will donate 0.5% of you shop at no cost to you.Just shop at smile.amazon.co.uk and select GFCT and they'll donate to us, at no cost to you.
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