About
Everyman
The Everyman male cancer campaign was launched by The Institute of Cancer Research in 1997. Everyman's mission is to stamp out testicular and prostate cancer. We can achieve this by making everyone recognise the tell-tale signs, and understand the importance of treating them. By increasing this awareness we also aim to raise money to fund our life-saving research.
The campaign was launched for three main reasons:
- The incidence of prostate and testicular cancers was rising dramatically.
- A lack of funds meant that too little research was being carried out.
- Men were (and many still are) notoriously bad at discussing health matters.
Which added up to one big reason - too many men were dying from male cancers.
Testicular cancer is the most common form of cancer in men aged between 15 and 44, with about 2,000 cases a year in the UK. Incidence is increasing dramatically - by almost 4-fold in the last 50 years. But thanks to advances made at the Everyman Centre, testicular cancer is now 99 per cent curable if caught early, and with treatment the overall cure rate is 97 per cent.
Prostate cancer has overtaken lung cancer to become the most common cancer in men affecting more than 35,000 men every year in the UK. One man dies of prostate cancer in the UK every hour, at least 10,000 men per year.
For more information about Everyman and male cancer visit www.everyman-campaign.org
