{"id":246443,"date":"2025-02-25T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/rishi-sunak-honoured-to-become-prostate-cancer-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T14:20:08","slug":"rishi-sunak-honoured-to-become-prostate-cancer-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/rishi-sunak-honoured-to-become-prostate-cancer-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak ‘honoured’ to become prostate cancer ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former prime minister Rishi Sunak has said he is “honoured” to become a prostate cancer charity ambassador.<\/p>\n

He will support Prostate Cancer Research’s campaign to introduce a national screening programme for men at high risk of the disease.<\/p>\n

He met workers developing a new blood test at the laboratories of British cancer diagnostics company Oxford BioDynamics last week.<\/p>\n

The EpiSwitch PSE test is said to be able to detect prostate cancer with 94% accuracy, which the charity called a “significant improvement” on the most commonly used prostate-specific antigen test.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Former Conservative leader Sunak, who is the MP for Richmond and Northallerton, said he wanted to “support the charity’s mission to revolutionise diagnosis and treatment”.<\/p>\n

“Men tend to ignore pain hoping it’ll go away rather than going to see the GP, and that’s a part of the reason why prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in males in the UK,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We can do something about that. It is clear from a trial that I funded when I was in office, that early detection saves lives.”<\/p>\n

He added he hoped his work for the charity would encourage more men to get a screening test “which will hopefully prevent further needless deaths”.<\/p>\n

Last month in the House of Commons, he pressed the government to consider increasing screenings for high-risk groups.<\/p>\n

Iain Ross, executive chairman of Oxford BioDynamics, said more than nine out of 10 men who received a positive EpiSwitch PSE result would have prostate cancer confirmed.<\/p>\n

This can “significantly cut” the number of “expensive and unnecessary MRI scans” and invasive prostate biopsies, he added.<\/p>\n

Oliver Kemp, chief executive of Prostate Cancer Research, called Sunak’s support “invaluable”.<\/p>\n

“Rishi’s advocacy will help us drive forward innovative research, challenge health inequalities, and ensure that more lives are saved,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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