Local Life - St Helens - March 2018
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36<br />
Health & Fitness<br />
Talking about<br />
prostate cancer<br />
The big C. No matter what type, the word<br />
‘cancer’ still sends a shiver down many spines,<br />
and those who have been personally affected by<br />
the disease know the difficulties and heartache that<br />
occurs at the hands of cancer.<br />
New figures released by Prostate Cancer UK in<br />
early February <strong>2018</strong> found prostate cancer is now a<br />
bigger killer than breast cancer – about one in eight<br />
men in the UK will get prostate cancer at some<br />
point in their lives – meaning the male-only disease<br />
is now the third most common cancer to die from,<br />
after lung and bowel cancer, with one man dying<br />
every 45 minutes.<br />
The research from Prostate Cancer UK revealed that<br />
11,819 men now die from prostate cancer every<br />
year in the UK, compared to 11,442 women dying<br />
from breast cancer.<br />
Only men have a prostate gland which sits<br />
underneath the bladder and surrounds the urethra,<br />
the tube men urinate and ejaculate through. It is<br />
usually the size and shape of a walnut and grows<br />
bigger as you get older.<br />
When cells in the prostate begin to grow in an<br />
uncontrolled way, prostate cancer can develop. The<br />
cancer often grows slowly to start with and may<br />
not cause problems, but in some cases the cancer
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