March marks third annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

The third annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is running through March 2011.

The Prostate Cancer Charity is urging people to get involved with their campaign by saying ‘I’m aware’.

The cancer is the most common cancer affecting men in the UK, with 36,000 diagnosed annually and one dying every hour.

The Prostate Cancer Charity’s Chief Executive, John Neate, says: “This March we are hoping to make sure that everyone knows about prostate cancer and we are calling on people up and down the country to join us in declaring ‘I’m aware’. There are 250,000 men living with the disease in the UK, yet many of them are still facing difficulties in accessing the support and information that they need to cope with the disease. We want to galvanise people in calling for the improvements in men’s experience of prostate cancer that we urgently need to see.”

For more information, visit: www.prostate-cancer.org.uk