Movember


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Pretty soon I’m going to grow a moustache. Not out of personal preference, but as part of Movember. For a month I’m going to be growing, trimming and tending an unsightly sprawl on my top lip in aid of prostate cancer. Dad announced about 2 years ago that he had it, a number family friends have it or have died of it, and Georgia’s father died of it. 1 in 11 UK men can expect to be diagnosed with it at sometime during their life. The moustache feels pretty trivial next to all that, but if anyone feels like donating to a worthy cause (the charity not the tache), I’d be hugely grateful.

If you are feeling generous, you can donate via me here or direct to the charity in the UK (or others worldwide).

Thanks.

  • Kyle Maxwell
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    Kyle Maxwell Kyle Maxwell

    Just trying to understand — I’m totally on-board with men’s health awareness and prostate cancer, but can you help me understand the connection with the moustache and how that will help?

  • Piers Young
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    Piers Young Piers Young

    Hi Kyle – fair question. The moustache itself is only really to raise awareness; the funds raised from sponsors go to the Prostate Cancer Charity. (The one linked to above is the UK one, I believe there are others for different countries.) Does that help?

    The Movember site has this to say:

    Men lack awareness about the very real health issues they face. There is an attitude that they have to be tough – “a real man” – and are reluctant to see a doctor about an illness or go for regular medical checks.

    The aim of Movember is to change this attitude, make men’s health fun by putting the Mo back on the face of English men and in the process raise some serious funds for key male health issues.

    Every year about 35,000 men in the U.K. are diagnosed with prostate cancer and about 10,000 men die from of the disease. A British man has a 1 in 11 lifetime risk of developing prostate cancer . It is now the most common cancer diagnosed in men in the U.K. with at least one man dying every hour from the disease.

  • Piers Young
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    Piers Young Piers Young

    Forgot to link to the Movember site above, so have added it – thanks, Kyle.