Stop sex discrimination - against men!

04/01/2008

There is an official screening policy for women for breast and cervical cancer but, as far as I am aware, the official policy for men is that there is NO screening for prostate cancer which is also a killer.

My interest in this is that I have just been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which has spread to my spine. I am extremely fit and by chance I had a blood test which resulted in the diagnosis. I have had no symptoms at all and still have no symptoms. If there had been a screening test two or three years ago I probably would not now have cancer of the spine which is uncurable and may not even now have prostrate cancer which is curable.

I believe that my cancer is probably the result of sexual discrimination in favour of women. Please publicise this discrimination and alert all men especially over the age of 50 to the dangers of prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer, with more than 30,000 new cases a year - a third of whom die.

Alan Calford, Wetherby