Kevin Vardy is a 53-year-old man living in Wigan. He has terminal prostate cancer, and is calling for screening for prostate cancer for men above 50 years of age. His petition to the Health Secretary for a national screening programme for prostate cancer – national programmes are only available currently for female-specific cancers – has already attracted over 51,000 signatures, and I encourage you to add your own. Thank you.
We called for such a programme in our election manifesto.
Justice for Men & Boys 
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Signed, shared, breath held waiting for a positive response…
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It’s been pointed out many times before that men are expendable.
This is true both in health care spending and in wartime where very young men who should have their lives before them, have been slaughtered on a whim.
Actually, this prompts me to say;
“I know how to end war and make it impossible” –
Make it compulsory for only women to be soldiers.
Then when young, pretty girls (or their exploded body parts) start coming home in body bags in any numbers the outcry will be such that any more armed conflicts will stopped in their tracks.
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Eric Blair wrote a fine reply, in an open letter, to Vera Brittain’s objection to the indiscriminate area bombing of Germany, by the RAF, on the grounds that German retaliation could not but endanger women and children.
55,000 Bomber Command aircrew were killed during the Second World War yet their lives counted for nothing compared to the relatively few ‘British’ women and children placed at risk of death through the possibility of German reprisals.
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I have signed and promoted this petition. I have also contacted my MP and Health Minister. I will continue to do my best to support Kevin’s petition where- ever and when- ever I can.
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MY part-time female GP did, eventually, examine my prostate, but only after telling me that the risk is seriously overstated and insisting that I made an appointment two weeks later.
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Hopefully she ordered a blood test rather than inserted a finger (which shouldn’t happen any more)? My female GP missed the classic signs of diabetes for 18 months in before it occurred to her to run a urine test. Probably took years off my life expectancy as a result. I now have a male GP, he’s incomparably better.
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I didn’t get a blood test. I was told that blood tests are far from reliable and advised that I have a slightly enlarged prostate. She prescribed some tablets that reduced my wife to tears and gave me a sheet with some back exercises on it. My wife obtained the tablets and I haven’t bothered to take them nor have I done the pointless exercises. I’d rather die than be at the mercy of a feminised NHS.
My part-time female GP has a lovely way of fobbing me off but I never come away from her consulting room without feeling that my concerns have not been addressed. My wife always seems to get what she needs and, strangely, if I say “my wife said I should see you about this” I’m referred to a specialist (true, every time). The specialist always says “nothing to worry about” or asks me why I was referred to him, as though it was my fault that he was troubled by a male tax payer.
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I would recommend you change to a male GP, at least 40+ (there are a few left).
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PS: Mrs Gruff is regularly pestered by the NHS if she does not go for some screening or another when she’s told it is available. Our local health centre car park is often the site of a very large trailer dedicated to breast screening, which I never see open or, when it is open, entered by women, much as the Mass X-ray units that were often seen parked up as I walked home from school, fifty years ago, were used by the men at risk of lung disease.
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