Hundreds converge on Highbury Fields for prostate cancer fundraiser
Fundraisers get ready for 10K run Nearly 11,000 men die of prostate cancer each year
Awarenessof the disease is still dangerously low, despite being the most commoncause of cancer death in men in the UK, killing nearly as many men every year asbreast cancer kills women.
A worrying 70 per cent of men know nothing about the disease or its symptoms.
The Great Drag Race will see hundreds of burly blokes running 10k around Highbury Fields this afternoon to quite literally drag the issue of prostate cancer into the spotlight. Prostate cancer deaths spiked this year and London suffers some of the highest rates in the country.
