14-07-2025
'Prostate Cancer's tests are simple and you're better off knowing'
Four men whose family members have been diagnosed with prostate cancer have completed a 16-hour golf challenge. Jonathon Wallace, Mike Ashwin, Ben Read, and Ben Smith played 100 holes on Chipping Sodbury Golf Club in South Gloucestershire in about 16 hours, raising £4,000 for charity Prostate Cancer in eight men will be diagnosed with the disease, which often does not have any symptoms until the tumour grows - meaning testing for the condition is crucial. Mr Wallace, whose father and wife's uncle both had the disease, hopes the challenge will encourage people to get checked, saying: "It's just a simple test and you're better off knowing."
"The sooner you know, the better and easier everything is to do with it," he Smith's father in law passed away from prostate cancer two and a half years ago, said Mr Wallace."It's so close to our heart that we thought this is the one to do."This made the biggest sense to all of us," Mr Wallace took the group 34.8 miles (56km) and 18 lost balls to complete the feat. "An incredible feeling of achievement that will last forever," said Mr Wallace. "Life is short. Do stuff that matters."Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. It's curable if caught early, but often shows no symptoms. You can check your risk in 30 seconds.
Symptoms
According to the NHS, prostate cancer does not usually cause any symptoms until the cancer has grown large enough to put pressure on the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the penis (urethra).Symptoms of prostate cancer can include:needing to pee more frequently, often during the nightneeding to rush to the toiletdifficulty in starting to pee (hesitancy)straining or taking a long time while peeingweak flowfeeling that your bladder has not emptied fullyblood in urine or blood in semen
