You funds have gone a long way to supporting men experiencing prostate cancer. Here are a few stats on our Movember funded support services, led by Prostate Cancer UK, showing what a difference you’ve made.

Your funds have gone a long way to supporting men experiencing prostate cancer. Here are a few stats on our Movember funded support services, led by Prostate Cancer UK, showing what a difference you’ve made.


FUNDED SERVICES SNAPSHOT

While research is a long-term solution for tackling prostate cancer as a whole, your funds and awareness also go a long way in the short term by helping men and their families through the prostate cancer experience. Our men’s health partner Prostate Cancer UK is currently implementing numerous support services, such as telephone support, online chat and information services, to help those affected by this disease. These services have progressed significantly in the last year, both in quality and quantity, and wouldn’t have done so with the dedicated fundraising and awareness spreading from you, our Mo Bros and Mo Sistas.

Telephone Support

• 90% of callers were very satisfied with the service this year
• 11 specialist nurses are answering the phones, providing an expert ear for the men and their families to speak to, answering any and all questions they may have about prostate cancer and its impact
• 47% increase in number of calls (from 2012 to 2013), hitting 9389 individual calls in total for 2013
• These calls can be broken down into the following:
  • 76.7% of calls were from men who were diagnosed with or concerned about prostate cancer
  • 11.0% of calls were from partners of men diagnosed with or concerned about prostate cancer
  • 8.8% of calls were from family or friends of men diagnosed with of concerned about prostate cancer
  • 3.5% of calls were from health care professionals, or callers who did not state their position
• The Top 5 topics discussed in 2013 were, in descending order of frequency:
  • Signs and symptoms
  • Diagnostic investigations
  • Treatment options
  • Advanced disease
  • PSA monitoring and results
• The average age of callers was 64
• 92% increase (from 2012 to 2013) in the use of the one-to-one support service; this service allows men to talk to trained support volunteers about an issue they choose surrounding prostate cancer, for a more personal and informal support service

Online Chat Service

• 164 people accessed this service during a 3-month pilot period. This service provides an alternative platform for men and their families to discuss prostate cancer; one that doesn’t require speaking on the phone and may provide a level of comfort in its simplicity and anonymity
• The service was open 10am to 3pm, Monday to Friday, during this period
• The average age of users was 52.
• It has now been officially launched. More information can be found here.

Information Services

• There were 535,275 unique visitors to the information pages of the Prostate Cancer UK website
• This was an increase of over 72% from 2012 to 2013
• 12% increase in number of printed support publications from 2012 to 2013
• For more information, visit their publications and information page here

 
This is just a snapshot of what your valuable fundraising has helped achieved; and this is just over the period of a year! With your continued support, and recruitment of your friends and family, we can continue to have a tangible impact of the lives of the men and their families suffering with this disease.

Click here to see more information about all the programmes we fund.

Click here to visit the patient support section of the Prostate Cancer UK website.