Most people don’t know what the prostate is for and some people don’t even know they have one, according to a new study highlighting the danger of prostate cancer.

The huge amount of ignorance around the gland could prove lethal to men, a charity has warned, and it may become the UK’s most common cancer.

The poor awareness of the gland – which can’t be seen outside of the body but sits underneath the bladder – might blind men to the risks and could lead to the disease not being tackled, warned Prostate Cancer UK.
More than nine out of 10 (92%) of over 3,500 men surveyed for Prostate Cancer UK had no idea what the prostate does.

Some 54% did not know where the gland – which helps make the fluid for sperm and helps men ejaculate – was in their body and 17% were unaware they even had a prostate.

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