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MANEA MATTERS
MANEA MATTERS
PROSTATE CANCER
Symptoms:
• Having to rush to the toilet to pass urine
• Needing to urinate more frequently, especially at night
• Difficulty starting/stopping to urinate
• Weak or interrupted flow when you urinate
• Dribbling urine
• A feeling of not emptying the bladder fully
BOWEL CANCER

Symptoms:
• Changes in bowel habits such as constipation or
diarrhoea or needing to poo more or less often than
usual for you
• Tummy pain, especially severe
• A lump or bulge in your tummy
• Bleeding from the bottom without any obvious reason
• Blood in your poo
• Unexplained weight loss
• Bloated feeling of not emptying the bladder fully

Below is a list of additional website links which you may find useful.
• Advice on how to check your breasts: https://self-checkout.coppafeel.org/
• A prostate cancer risk checker: https://prostatecanceruk.org/risk-checker
• Specialist support around lung cancer: https://roycastle.org/
• More information on bowel cancer screening, including the number of call to request a
screening kit if you are 75+: https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/about-bowel-cancer/
screening/

Our Macmillan Village Agents are:
Kathy Davey kathy.davey@cambsacre.org.uk / Nicky Harris nicky.harris@cambsacre.org.uk
Tel: 01353 860850

Editor’s Note: Cambridgeshire ACRE’s mission is ‘Supporting and strengthening rural
communities’. Check out their website www.cambsacre.org.uk to find out more. This
includes the training courses, listed under ‘Improving community health and wellbeing’,
which you can attend for free e.g. Cancer Awareness, from which I gained their permission
to use the above really useful information.

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