Today is the first of November, which means it’s the start of the annual Movember campaign, raising awareness for prostate cancer.
We’re sure that many of you will be taking part in the month-long challenge to grow a moustache and raise money for research into prostate cancer.
The campaign was created way back in 2003 in Australia and has now spread across 21 countries. It’s intended as a fun way to raise awareness for the killer cancer by changing “changing the face of men’s health, one moustache at a time”.
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One Islander who is intending to take part is Jake Elsley from Newport.
He’s already set up his page on the MoBro website and posted his first photo, sans moustache.
We’ll be keeping an eye on his progress over the month and hopefully see his donations rise as the weeks move on.
The stark facts about prostate cancer
Some sobering facts from the Movember website reveal that it is far more common than many would like to believe.
- 1 in 9 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK – one man is diagnosed every 15 minutes
- A man will die from prostate cancer every hour – more than 10,000 men will die of the disease this year in the UK
- African Caribbean men are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer
- You are 2.5 times more likely to develop prostate cancer if your father or brother has had it
- Occurrences of prostate cancer in men are comparable to the rates of breast cancer in women
- 2,209 men in the UK were diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2009
- 47% of testicular cancer cases occur in men under 35 years and over 90% occur in men under 55 years
If you’d like to take part in Movember, pop over to their dedicated Website for more info on how to register.
