The former Conservative Prime Minister is urging men to get checks this week at one of six sessions nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Men can book a potentially life-saving test for the subsidised price of \u00a312.50, which will check the health of their prostate and could spot early signs of a tumour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
National Screening Day is on Saturday,\u00a0but Prostate Cancer<\/a> Research and The Graham Fulford Charitable Trust has organised events for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as well.<\/p>\n Catching prostate cancer early boosts survival chances, and treatment is typically easier, cheaper and more effective.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n It is the most common cancer in the UK, with 63,000 cases and 12,000 deaths each year \u2013 but unlike breast, bowel and lung cancer, there is no national screening programme.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n The Daily Mail is campaigning to end needless prostate cancer deaths and\u00a0for a national prostate cancer screening programme, initially targeted at high-risk men, including those who are black, have a family history of the disease or particular genetic mutations.<\/p>\n Writing for the Daily Mail, Mr Sunak says: ‘We are at a pivotal moment for men’s health in this country. The Government has the chance to save countless lives by introducing a targeted screening programme.’\u00a0<\/p>\n The former Conservative Prime Minister is urging men to get checks this week at one of six sessions nationwide<\/p>\n The Daily Mail is campaigning to end needless prostate cancer deaths and for a national prostate cancer screening programme, initially targeted at high-risk men\u00a0<\/p>\n The UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC) issued draft guidance in November saying the checks should be offered only in very limited circumstances. For now, it has put forward a recommendation to only screen men with BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations \u2013 who face a significantly higher risk of aggressive prostate cancer \u2013 every two years between the ages of 45 and 61.\u00a0<\/p>\n Prostate Cancer Research campaign events this week <\/p>\n <!- – ad: https:\/\/mads.dailymail.co.uk\/v8\/us\/news\/none\/article\/other\/mpu_factbox.html?id=mpu_factbox_1 – ->\n<\/p>\n It would not recommend full screening using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test because it may result in too many men undergoing unnecessary biopsies or surgery for slow-growing tumours that might never have caused them harm.\u00a0<\/p>\n But a review by York Health Economics Consortium has since discovered that it relied on outdated data, diagnosis methods and treatments. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has the authority to overrule the UKNSC, which is due to publish its final recommendation later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n Mr Sunak will attend a screening event at Ilford Wanderers RFC in east London on Saturday, open to all local men aged 40 and over between 10am and 2pm.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/107215293-15655421-image-a-5_1773781298713.jpg\")
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