European Prostate Cancer Awareness Day 2019

1. Time for a new strategy
André Deschamps
Chairman Europa Uomo

2. 55
Million

3. Only 48% of all men in Europe are aware of prostate cancer risks and PSA testing
< 10%
10 -30 %
31- 50%
51- 80%

4. Only 50% of health care professionals promotes PSA testing
No promotion
Partly promotion
Promotion

5. Only 19% of diagnosed men are treated within a month
Not treated within a month
Treated within a month

6. Is Active Surveillance offered when possible? Only 64% of all diagnosed men have access to AS
No
Partly
Yes

7. No complaints
Bone muscle pain
Seldom complaints
Time scale depends on agressivity of cancer
2 10 100 500 ng/ml
PSA scale depending on cancer and person
No cancer
Early stage
Cancer 1 side
Cancer 2 sides
Metastasis
Growth outside prostate
Quality of life
Side effects and quality of life
Side effects

8. Living with metastasis , hormone treatment and side effects
 “Every evening I was sad because I was not
able to do what I had planned”
 “It was like walking together on a constant
downhill slope”
 “My partner left because my libido became
zero”

9. Time for a new strategy
Awareness
Cancercentres
PSAledscreening

10. 55
Million