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Statement from Prostate Scotland welcoming research into potential new blood test for helping detect potentially aggressive prostate cancer

Statement from Prostate Scotland welcoming research into potential new blood test for helping detect potentially aggressive prostate cancer

‘The announcement by researchers from Queen Mary University London of research into a new blood test that could potentially show whether prostate cancer is likely to spread/and the likely aggressiveness of the cancer, is very encouraging and if confirmed in clinical trials, could potentially help doctors to be able to treat prostate cancer quicker and to help monitor cancer progression and therefore be very helpful’.

15 June 2017

See the article at the journal Clinical Cancer Research at  doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-3081 or at  http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2017/06/13/1078-0432.CCR-16-3081#

 Notes to editors:

1. Prostate Scotland was set up in 2006 as a Scottish charity to develop awareness of prostate disease, to support men and their families/ partners with the disease through providing advice and information and to advance treatment and research into prostate disease. Its aim is to reach out across Scotland to create greater awareness amongst men and their families/partners about prostate disease and to advance treatment. It has established an award winning website www.prostatescotland.org.uk providing a wide range of information about prostate disease and treatments, as well as providing information and advice about prostate disease to men and their families across Scotland. In 2010 the charity won a national award for its impact on community health and in 2013 and 2015 was commended in the British Medical Association Patient information Awards. Prostate Scotland is a registered Scottish charity No.SC037494

2. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer amongst men in Scotland, with a lifetime chance of one in ten men developing it. There were over 32,675 new registrations of men with prostate cancer between 2004 and 2014 and 9133 deaths of men in Scotland from prostate cancer, during that period[i]. Over the past 20 years the number of men surviving prostate cancer has doubled and survival rates are now 80%. Projections by the NHS show that the diagnosis of men with prostate cancer is likely to rise by up to 35% between now and 2027.

[i] See Scottish Cancer Registry May 2016 and Cancer Incidence in in Scotland (2014), and Information Services Division NHS National Services Scotland  November 2015