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The Cancer Chronicles: Prostate Cancer
If cancer hasn’t already impacted your life, chances are it will in the future. Whether it hits a friend, family member, or even your own body, it is a devastating and sincerely frightening endeavour for a family and community. The emotional, psychological and physical tolls a cancer diagnosis takes is beyond calculation.
This is why I have released this series of booklets, The Cancer Chronicles, and continue to add to it. I want to do my share to put an end to all of the agony caused by this horrific disease. To take a passive role in the fight against cancer would be, for me as a health care professional, entirely unethical.
Don’t think it’s important to think about prostate cancer? Well…
- Each year in Australia, close to 3,300 men die of prostate cancer—equal to the number of women who die from breast cancer annually.
- Around 20,000 new cases are diagnosed in Australia every year.
- Each day about 32 men learn news that they have prostate cancer – tragically one man every three hours will lose his battle against this insidious disease
- One in 9 men in Australia will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime
- Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Australian men and is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in men
- As many men die from prostate cancer as women die from breast cancer but… a national survey by PCFA in 2002 showed that while 78% of women felt well informed about breast cancer – only 52% of men felt informed about prostate cancer.
Download this free instalment now to learn about the reality of prostate cancer and cancer treatment – including a firsthand account – and what you can do to avoid it. Don’t let another day go by without having this important information to guide you.
