Tackle Prostate Cancer Appoints Sarah Gray as National Support & Development Manager
Tackle Prostate Cancer charity, the voice of prostate cancer patients and their families in the UK is delighted to announce the appointment of Sarah Gray as its new National Support and Development Manager. The charity has been awarded funding by the National Lottery for the project Tackling Prostate Cancer – peer-to-peer support for men with prostate […]
Appeal application against NICE decision accepted
Steve Allen, Tackle Patient Representative, reports that the combined application for appeal against the NICE decision on Abiraterone made by Tackle and Prostate Cancer UK has been successful. A submission made by Prof Nick James, a nominated clinical expert, has also been accepted. This is merely a first step in a long process. It does […]
NICE rejects use of Abiraterone for men with newly-diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer
Tackle is extremely disappointed to report the latest decision by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to reject the use of Abiraterone for men with newly-diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer in England and Wales. Current first-line treatment for men with newly-diagnosed metastatic hormone sensitive prostate cancer (ndmhsPCa) is hormone therapy with additional chemotherapy (Docetaxel). […]
Restarting Cancer Services in the NHS after COVID-19
COVID-19 is an unprecedented crisis which has had a profound impact on health and care services across the UK and will continue to have an impact for the months and years to come. To guide the restoration of services, Tackle Prostate Cancer along with 24 other cancer charities have come together – as One Cancer Voice – to develop […]
European Experts Back Prostate Cancer Screening
Tackle are at the forefront of the campaign for a targeted national screening programme for prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in UK and the annual toll of deaths from prostate cancer continues to rise, now topping 12,000, with deaths exceeding those from breast cancer. The European Association of Urology have now […]
Tackle Trustee Roshani Perera turns the spotlight on mental health in cancer care
Tackle Trustee Roshani Perera, director of the Wicked Minds healthcare consultancy, has written an article that has been published in PharmaTimes. The article looks at the provision of psychological support services for men living with prostate cancer and their carers and families across England based on a Tackle Freedom of Information request. Click here to read the article […]
European Experts Advocate Population-based Screening
Tackle wholeheartedly welcomes the news that the European Association of Urology, probably the most informed and expert major international body to make a judgement, has published a clear and unequivocal recommendation in favour of population-based Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) screening to reduce the unacceptable death rate from Prostate Cancer (PCa). In a lengthy paper published […]
Tackle Makes Submission to UK National Screening Committee
In partnership with CHAPS and ORCHID, Tackle has submitted our views on prostate cancer screening to the UK National Screening Committee (NSC). In their last review in 2015/16, the NSC did not recommend screening for the following reasons: Evidence suggests prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing could reduce prostate-cancer related mortality by 21%. Despite this, the major harms of […]
Scottish Medicines Commission approves an extended use for Abiraterone
The Scottish Medicines Commission have recently approved the use of Abiraterone earlier in the treatment pathway for prostate cancer. This approval is specifically for patients with newly diagnosed, high risk, metastatic, hormone sensitive prostatic cancer. Or to put it more simply, patients who have just been diagnosed with significant advanced disease who would normally just […]
Tackle awarded funding by the National Lottery
Tackle Prostate Cancer, the voice of prostate cancer patients and their families in the UK have been awarded funding by the National Lottery for the project Tackling Prostate Cancer – peer-to-peer support for men with prostate cancer. The grant is for just under £238,000 over three years. There are three main aims for this project: to increase […]