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Like its predecessor, the second year of the Covid pandemic brought new challenges and opportunities to patients and staff at the Focal Therapy Clinic. Cancellations of diagnostic and treatment procedures in the NHS continued to build throughout the year, and in a very uneven pattern across the country. This became a dominant theme amongst conversations…

It’s that time of year again – when moustaches are in and taboos around men’s health are out.  Movember starts this week, gearing up in its mission to break the taboos around mental health, prostate cancer and other diseases affecting millions of men across the globe.  Elvin Box, Movember ambassador and prostate cancer survivor, is…

Ageing is the highest risk factor in developing prostate cancer, and its commonly accepted inevitability is often encapsulated in the comment “you don’t die of it, you die with it”. So entrenched is this mentality that it drives attitudes, behaviours and practices around the management of prostate cancer, to the point where we have seen…