Jack's 5km a day
Jack Butcher is raising money for PROSTATE CANCER UK
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I will be running 5km everyday from January 14th 2021 until February 13th 2021. It will be the equivalent to running from London to Birmingham. Unfortunately someone very close to me was recently diagnosed with Prostate Cancer so this is a subject that has become very personal to me. All money raised will be going straight to Prostate Cancer UK.
If you do wish to donate then that would be greatly appreciated, Thankyou.
In the UK, about 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. We don't know exactly what causes prostate cancer but there are some things that may mean you are more likely to get it – these are called risk factors.
There are three main risk factors for getting prostate cancer, which are things you can't change. These are:
- getting older – it mainly affects men aged 50 or over
- having a family history of prostate cancer
- being black.
Too many men are needlessly dying of prostate cancer. The latest data shows that the number of men dying each year has gone up (again) and underscores the terrible fact that this disease is as big as breast cancer. The latest data shows that 12,000 men died of prostate cancer in one year. That’s 12,000 friends, brothers, lovers and dads like William’s, who died when he was just 12. Most of these men died because their prostate cancer was not detected early enough.
By 2030, prostate cancer will be the most common of all cancers. That is only 10 years away, which means we’re on a countdown and we need to be ready.
The futures of thousands of men across the UK depend on what we do in the next few years.
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