Keating: Prostate cancer ignorance shocking

THERE is a shocking level of ignorance about prostate cancer at a time when nearly 1,400 new cases are diagnosed every year, singer Ronan Keating warned yesterday.

Mr Keating, patron of the Marie Keating Foundation, said the latest research indicated that one-in-four people did not know what the prostate gland is.

“Yet only skin cancer kills more men than prostate cancer,” he said at the launch of the foundation’s third annual men’s cancer campaign in Dublin yesterday.