{"entity":{"id":"prostate-cancer-uk","kind":"institution","name":"Prostate Cancer UK","aka":[],"tldr":"The UK charity that funds prostate cancer research, answers the questions the NHS has no time for through a team of Specialist Nurses, and is paying for half of TRANSFORM, the trial that will decide whether Britain ever screens for this disease.","summary":"Prostate Cancer UK (registered charity 1005541 in England and Wales and SC039332 in Scotland, at The Counting House, 53 Tooley Street, London) runs a free Specialist Nurse service on 0800 074 8383, reachable by telephone, WhatsApp, email and online chat, and a separate Risk Information Service on 0800 448 0821 for men who have not been diagnosed and want to talk through their risk and the PSA test before deciding anything.\n\nIts campaigning centres on the fact that has been known since 2015 and acted on slowly: one in four Black men will get prostate cancer, roughly double the risk of other men. Its Stronger Knowing More campaign, its 30-second online risk checker, which it says more than 190,000 Black men have completed, and a one-to-one peer support service that matches a man with a trained Black volunteer who has had the disease, all exist to close that gap. It called the UK National Screening Committee's March 2026 recommendation a positive first step while saying plainly that the committee did not recommend screening Black men over 45.\n\nIt is the larger funder of TRANSFORM, the multi-arm screening trial run from Imperial College London that began recruiting on 21 November 2025, and it is the body that will publish the answer on Black men when stage 2 opens to all eligible Black men aged 45 to 74.","asOf":"2026-09-25","links":[{"label":"Prostate Cancer UK","url":"https://prostatecanceruk.org/"},{"label":"Get support","url":"https://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information-and-support/get-support"},{"label":"Black men and prostate cancer","url":"https://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information-and-support/risk-and-symptoms/black-men-and-prostate-cancer"},{"label":"The risk checker","url":"https://prostatecanceruk.org/risk-checker"},{"label":"The TRANSFORM trial","url":"https://prostatecanceruk.org/research/transform-trial"}],"tags":["charity","uk","prostate"],"related":[],"cancers":["prostate","prostate-mhspc","prostate-mcrpc","prostate-low-risk"],"sections":["early-detection"],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["macmillan-cancer-support"],"pathways":[],"terms":["psa"],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"London","country":"GB","lat":51.505,"lng":-0.086,"institutionType":"consortium","website":"https://prostatecanceruk.org/","programs":["Specialist Nurse service, 0800 074 8383, by telephone, WhatsApp, email and online chat","Risk Information Service, 0800 448 0821, for undiagnosed men","The 30-second online risk checker","Stronger Knowing More: the Black men and prostate cancer campaign and its one-to-one peer support service","Co-funder and co-sponsor of the TRANSFORM screening trial with the NIHR","Research grants across diagnosis, treatment and survivorship"]},"route":"/institutions/prostate-cancer-uk/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"prostate-low-risk","kind":"cancer","name":"Localised prostate cancer, very low and low risk","route":"/cancers/prostate-low-risk/"},{"id":"prostate-mcrpc","kind":"cancer","name":"Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer","route":"/cancers/prostate-mcrpc/"},{"id":"prostate-mhspc","kind":"cancer","name":"Metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer","route":"/cancers/prostate-mhspc/"},{"id":"prostate","kind":"cancer","name":"Prostate cancer","route":"/cancers/prostate/"}],"section":[{"id":"early-detection","kind":"section","name":"Early Detection & Screening","route":"/fronts/early-detection/"}],"institution":[{"id":"macmillan-cancer-support","kind":"institution","name":"Macmillan Cancer Support","route":"/institutions/macmillan-cancer-support/"}],"term":[{"id":"psa","kind":"term","name":"PSA (prostate-specific antigen)","route":"/terms/psa/"}],"trial":[{"id":"transform-prostate","kind":"trial","name":"TRANSFORM","route":"/trials/transform-prostate/"}]}}