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About Us

We are a campaigning website and Facebook Group aimed at raising issue with the UK Government and NHS failure to have a standard screening programme for Prostate Cancer.  Test-My-PSA

11,819* men now die from prostate cancer every year in the UK compared to 11,442* women dying from breast cancer. It means the male-only disease is now the third most common cancer to die from, after lung and bowel cancer.

Men are dying because of the failure of healthcare services to add PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen) testing as standard when blood screening.

The NHS state: There’s currently no national screening programme for prostate cancer in the UK because:

The PSA test is not always accurate. Research has shown around 3 in 4 men with a raised PSA level will not have cancer, and around 1 in 7 men with prostate cancer would have a normal PSA result.

They express concerns that false positive may lead to unnecessary worry and medical tests when there’s no cancer and a false negative can miss cancer and provide false reassurance.

A raised PSA level in your blood may be a sign of prostate cancer, but it can also be a sign of another condition that’s not cancer, such as:

  • an enlarged prostate
  • prostatitis
  • urinary tract infection

This should also be investigated so the PSA test is a valuable resource. While a positive PSA Test result will naturally worry the person with a raised PSA level, it is better to get it investigated early and hopefully be relieved it is not Prostate Cancer. It is better to have a false positive which is investigated than to miss someone with Prostate Cancer.

While a person can request a PSA test from their doctor, few men will even know what a PSA test is to request it and men are dying because of this. 

We want the UK Government and NHS to launch a national standard PSA screening service for men aged 50+ and on demand for younger males.  We further demand that PSA testing becomes a standard part of Welman blood tests and when bloods are taken from males* in hospital.

*figures from 2018

*the term males and men within this website is used generally to describe anyone with a prostate – this is generally anyone assigned male at birth.