A close shave with cancer spurs rector to highlight men’s health issues
The rector of Seagoe Parish, Canon Terence Cadden, and two other parishioners are growing moustaches during the month of November as part of the ‘Movember’ initiative to help highlights men’s health issues, of which Terence has personal experience.
Movember is a movement which began in Melbourne, Australia in 2003 with a few men, and which by last year had spread to many nations and involved over 800,000 men and helped to raise over £184 million towards cancer research in addition to raising awareness of some other most common men’s health issues.
Highlighted issues include Testicular cancer, Prostate cancer, Bowel cancer, skin cancer and mental health.
Terence decided to take part as he had a close shave with skin cancer (malignant melanoma) surviving largely due to early diagnosis. A family member has survived Testicular Cancer, again thanks to early diagnosis, however another family member died of Prostate cancer. In addition a friend of Terence’s died recently of bowel cancer.
Terence hopes that by being willing to talk about his experience he will encourage other men to take their health seriously and to seek medical opinion over any concerns they may have.
Seagoe Men’s Group are currently planning to hold a men’s breakfast at the end of the month when the moustaches will be shaved off! There will also be some experts on hand to give informative talks on men’s health and a clinic is planned where a variety of health checks will be available.
If anyone would like to support Terence in his fund raising they can do so by sending him money or by donating via his webpage at:
www.uk.movember.com/mospace/5431225