Teesside man with prostate cancer continues calls for national screening programme
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men
60 men in Redcar are getting tested for prostate cancer today thanks to the efforts of a Middlesbrough man who's had it for nine years.
There's currently no national screening programme but it's something Terry Bytheway has been consistently calling for.
Terry, who's from Coulby Newham, was diagnosed in 2017 and has since set up the North East Prostate Cancer Support Group.
He said: "If we go on the average of one in eight men, you can guarantee that about 8 to 10 men will have prostate cancer, so it's vitally important that we have a screening programme. I'm hoping the Government will eventually decide to do a screening programme because we need to stop this needless death of men.
"If they carry on with prostate cancer, the cancer will eventually take over their body and they will probably die because of it and what we're trying to do is we're trying to make men aware, get them to go to the doctors, get their blood test done, find out whether or not they have issues and then be sorted."
He is looking to fundraise for another similar event in Saltburn and there is currently a waiting list which people can put their name down for by contacting the group.