Prostate Cancer: Health Education and Screening

The Department remains committed to raising awareness of all cancer types, including prostate cancer, and recognises that there is more to be done to encourage men at increased risk to come forward for testing.

The National Health Service, and several other local and national organisations, publish information on the signs and symptoms of many different types of cancer, including prostate cancer. This information can be found on the NHS.UK website, at the following link:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/prostate-cancer/symptoms/

Men with symptoms, those over the age of 50 years old, those from a black ethnic background, or those with a family history of prostate cancer, who are worried about their risk of prostate cancer, are urged to see a general practitioner.

In January 2025, NHS England re-launched its Abdominal and urological symptoms of cancer phase of the Help Us Help You public awareness campaigns. These public campaigns aim to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address barriers to acting on them, to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner.

In addition, NHS England has delivered a full roll out of non-specific symptom pathways, designed to speed up the diagnosis of cancer. Non-specific symptom pathways introduce a route to possible diagnosis for patients who display symptoms that could indicate cancer, but which do not align to specific cancers.