Beating Cancer in South Basildon and East Thurrock

Labour’s parliamentary candidate Mike Le-Surf is campaigning to beat cancer in South Basildon and East Thurrock by raising awareness and support for cancer research in the UK.

Mr. Le-Surf is supporting the standardising of cigarette packaging to deter young people from taking up the habit while also promoting awareness of prostate cancer which will affect one in eight men during their lifetime. Mr. Le-Surf met with Cancer Research UK and Prostate Cancer UK at the Labour Party conference in Brighton last month and is encouraging residents to get involved with their campaigns to beat cancer.

Mr. Le-Surf said:

“My campaigning will focus on three areas: plain packaging for cigarettes, awareness of prostate cancer and encouraging residents to become ambassadors for Cancer Research UK and volunteers for Prostate Cancer UK. Hundreds of children take up smoking in South Basildon and East Thurrock every year so it was a disgrace that David Cameron and the Tories dropped proposals to bring in plain packaging. I urge residents to write to Mr. Cameron and put him straight on the need to beat cancer in the constituency. Research kills cancer and I am sure that residents will join me to help beat cancer in South Basildon and East Thurrock.”

Contact Mike Le-Surf on 07958 015048 or @Mike4SBET on twitter.

 

Standardised Packaging

Setting the Standard is Cancer Research UK’s campaign for plain, standardised cigarette packaging.
Every year in the UK 207,000 11-15 year olds take up smoking. Addiction keeps them smoking into adulthood, where it then kills one in two long-term users. Evidence shows that removing all branding and design from the packs makes cigarettes less attractive for both adults and children. Since tobacco advertising became illegal in the UK in 2002, tobacco companies have invested a fortune in branded packaging to attract new smokers. Most of these new smokers are children, with more than 80% starting by the age of 19.

 

Prostate Cancer Awareness

In the UK, about 1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer at some point in their lives. Older men, men with a family history of prostate cancer and men of black African and black Caribbean descent are more at risk.

Prostate cancer mainly affects men over the age of 50 and your risk increases with age. The average age for men to be diagnosed with prostate cancer is between 70 and 74 years. If you are under 50 then your risk of getting prostate cancer is very low. Younger men can be affected, but this is rare. If you are having problems urinating this could be a sign of a problem in your prostate. Go to the website below and make some checks and contact your GP for a check or call Prostate Cancer UK Specialist Nurses on the confidential helpline 0800 0748383.

http://prostatecanceruk.org/

 

Become an Ambassador or a Volunteer

You can apply to be an ambassador here:

For an application form, please contact 07795 334929 or email campaigning@cancer.org.uk

If you have any questions, Cancer Research UK  would be happy to discuss them with you, or for more information and FAQs please visit www.cancercampaigns.org.uk/ambassadors

More information here:

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/home/

Volunteer for Prostate Cancer UK here: http://prostatecanceruk.org/get-involved/volunteer