The Institute of Cancer Research launched everyman in September 1997 to highlight the issue of male cancers and to raise money to establish the UK's first dedicated male cancer research centre.
Men know more about breast cancer than male cancers yet . . .
Prostate cancer is predicted to overtake both lung and breast cancer to become the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK by 2018. The causes are still not understood. Testicular cancer is the most common cancer to affect young men between the ages of 20 and 35. The years since the diagnosis have been very hard. I've needed the support of all my family and friends, but I've felt that I needed to help them through it too.