More cures, less harm
Over the past 25 years, Prostate Cancer UK has invested over £500 million in research to transform our understanding of the disease. But prostate cancer is still harming too many men in exchange for too few cures.
If prostate cancer is caught in time, when it's still contained within the prostate, there are treatments that can cure it. However, even after successful treatment, side-effects like incontinence can occur. If prostate cancer escapes outside the prostate, and develops into an advanced form of the disease, men's treatment options become limited. On some occasions, even cancers caught in the early stages may return in an advanced form.
Prostate Cancer UK believes men deserve better. That's why they're funding research to get men diagnosed earlier and more accurately and find better treatments that are more likely to cure men and less likely to harm them.
By 2030, Prostate Cancer UK aims to have made progress to:
- Reduce the number of men diagnosed too late or inaccurately.
- Reduce the number of men whose initial treatments failed.
- Reduce harm from side-effects resulting from treatment for localised disease.