Cancer warning now served with a pint in pubs

Mar 23 2005

As part of a campaign to raise awareness of prostate cancer, men drinking in Glasgow pubs will be served up advice on the disease along with their pints.

The Prostate Cancer Charity says too many Scots do not realise the importance of the gland and it hopes that the Real Man beer mat campaign - launched during Prostate Cancer Awareness Week - will help them learn about their bodies.

The condition is the UK's most common form of male cancer and affects 27,000 men each year across the country, killing 10,000. The Charity said its statistics showed that most men over the age of 45 do not even know they have a prostate gland and it believes Scots have a greater chance of beating the disease if they are better informed about the gland. The campaign, being launched this week, will urge Glasgow pub landlords and their customers to become involved.