100+ men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year.

Men’s Health suffers from an imbalance, and at the core of our work is highlighting the most common cancer in men that sadly if left can be devastating.

Founded by local advocates, we aim to change how men talk about their health.

We believe it is vital to get more men talking about their health and acting when they feel like something could be wrong, and we spend time reaching out to our island community giving talks. Alongside this Mannin Cancers wants to;

  • Raise awareness of male cancer and educate men about the risk factors, signs and symptoms of
    cancer.
  • Work closely with health and social care professionals, other voluntary organisations,
    community groups and local companies to spread the message thereby ensuring men of all ages
    are well informed.
  • Identify problems regarding male cancers, empowering people with the information to know
    where and when to seek help if needed.
  • In March 2023 we launched the island’s first Mannin Cancer Awareness days
  • We have produced our Prostate Cancer awareness leaflet
  • We are increasing our social media activity including targeting men in specific talking
    page ‘Balls in your court’

Symptoms

Men have higher rates of getting and dying from cancer than women.

The earlier cancer is found, the better the chance of beating it. We advise that you get to know your body. If you know understand how you usually feel it will be easier to spot any unusual
changes in your body or signs and symptoms of cancer.

60% of men do not go to the doctor? Some of us will do nearly anything to avoid going to the doctor. The most common cancer found in men are;

  • Raise awareness of male cancer and educate men about the risk factors, signs and symptoms of cancer.
  • Work closely with health and social care professionals, other voluntary organisations, community groups and local companies to spread the message thereby ensuring men of all ages are well informed.
  • Identify problems regarding male cancers, empowering people with the information to know where and when to seek help if needed.
  • In March 2023 we launched the island’s first Mannin Cancer Awareness days
  • We have produced our Prostate Cancer awareness leaflet
  • We are increasing our social media activity including targeting men in specific talking page ‘Balls in your court’

Common Cancers

Prostate

Prostate cancer does not usually cause any symptoms until the cancer has grown large enough to put pressure on the bladder

Symptoms of prostate cancer can include:

  • needing to pee more frequently, often during the night needing to rush to the toilet
  • difficulty in starting to pee (hesitancy)
  • straining or taking a long time while peeing weak flow
  • feeling that your bladder has not emptied fully
  • blood in urine or blood in semen
These symptoms do not always mean you have prostate cancer. Many men’s prostates get larger as they get older.

Lung

Most lung cancers do not cause any symptoms until later but If you go to your doctor when you first notice a change. Most of these symptoms are more likely to be caused by something other than lung cancer.

  • cough that does not go away or gets worse
  • Coughing up blood or rust-coloured spit
  • Chest pain that is often worse with deep breathing, coughing, or laughing
  • Hoarseness
  • Loss of appetite
  • Shortness of breath
  • Feeling tired or weak
  • Infections that don’t go away or keep coming back

Bowel

The symptoms of bowel cancer can be subtle and do not necessarily make you feel ill. More than 90% of people with bowel cancer have 1 of the following combinations of symptoms:

  • a persistent change in bowel habit – pooing more often, with looser, poos and sometimes tummy (abdominal) pain
  • blood in the poo without other symptoms
  • abdominal pain, discomfort or bloating always brought on by eating – sometimes resulting in a reduction in the amount of food eaten and weight loss
Most people with these symptoms do not have bowel cancer

Head and Neck

As with many symptoms of cancer, cancer is not the obvious cause and many will not get cancer. Head and neck cancer refers to several types of cancers that affect your mouth, throat or other parts of your head and neck. You can reduce your risk by avoiding tobacco, limiting alcohol and preventing an HPV infection. These cancers are often treatable if caught early, and most are preventable

The main symptoms are;

  • A lump in the nose, neck or throat, with or without pain
  • A persistent sore throat
  • Trouble swallowing (dysphagia)
  • Frequent coughing
  • Change in voice or hoarseness
  • Ear pain or trouble hearing
  • A red or white patch in the mouth

Testicular

Cancer of the testicle is 1 of the less common cancers and tends to mostly affect men between 15 and 49 years of age. Typical symptoms are a painless swelling or lump in 1 of the testicles, or any change in shape or texture of the testicles.

It’s important to be aware of what feels normal for you. Get to know your body and see a GP if you notice any changes

Typical symptoms are

  • a painless swelling or lump in 1 of the testicles, or any change in shape or texture of the testicles.
  • swelling or lump can be about the size of a pea but may be larger.
  • lumps or swellings in the scrotum are not in the testicle and are not a sign of cancer, but they should never be ignored.
  • an increase in the firmness of a testicle
  • a difference in appearance between 1 testicle and the other
  • a dull ache or sharp pain in your testicles or scrotum, which may come and go
  • a feeling of heaviness in your scrotum

Penile

Penile cancer is a rare cancer that mostly affects the skin of the penis and the foreskin (the skin covering the head of the penis). Treatment for most penile cancers caught very early include creams and laser therapy. If not caught early, treatment may mean surgery

The most common symptoms are:

  • a growth or sore that does not heal within 4 weeks
  • a rash
  • bleeding from the penis or under the foreskin
  • a smelly discharge
  • thickening of the skin of the penis or foreskin that makes it difficult to pull back the foreskin
  • a change in the colour of the skin of your penis or foreskin
  • a lump in the groin

Bladder

Bladder cancer is where a growth of abnormal tissue, it develops in the bladder lining. In some cases, the tumour spreads into the bladder muscle.

Symptoms of Bladder Cancer an include:

  • Blood in the urine (around 80% of cases have some blood in their urine)
  • there is blood only when you start to pee
  • you had any pain when you passed the urine with blood in it
  • Problems passing urine
  • passing urine very often (frequency)
  • passing urine very suddenly (urgency)
  • pain or a burning sensation when passing urine
These symptoms are much more likely to be caused by other conditions rather than cancer. For example a urine infection, particularly if you do not have blood in your urine. For men, the symptoms could be caused by an enlarged prostate gland.

Help us

We believe that every person suffering & affected by Cancer, should get the help and support they need. We will continue to raise funds to pay for the very latest equipment to make treatment of cancers easier, and we continue to help improve the patient’s experience.

We rely 100% on our community, our supporters, and our friends in local businesses to keep supporting those affected by cancer, their families and those with an interest in cancer.

We have many events over the year and if you are interested then keep in touch with us and if you have an idea or want to fundraise for us then please contact us. Also if your work place or Company would like info about sponsoring one of our events we would love to hear from you .

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