Prostate Cancer Awareness Week

EDM number 1159 in 2006-07, proposed by John Baron on 19/03/2007.

That this House congratulates The Prostate Cancer Charity, the largest UK voluntary organisation focused on prostate health, for organising Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, which is running from 19th to 25th March; notes with concern new ICM research showing that nearly 90 per cent. of men in the UK do not understand the prostate gland's vital role in their sexual function and that this awareness is only slowly improving; welcomes the wide range of initiatives being taken during Prostate Cancer Awareness Week to focus public attention on the disease and raise money for research, including the distribution of half a million information leaflets, drinks mats and advertisements and extensive community initiatives; further welcomes the public awareness project carried out in 2006, jointly funded by the Department of Health and the Prostate Cancer Charter for Action, an influential voluntary sector campaigning group; and calls on the Government to roll-out a national awareness campaign if analysis of the pilot shows that it has been successful.

This motion has been signed by a total of 95 MPs.