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A team of four ex-Royal Marines are celebrating today after completing their Atlantic row challenge over the weekend, raising a phenomenal £120,000 for The Prostate Cancer Charity.

Marks & Spencer employee, ex-Royal Marine and local resident, Graham Witham, is celebrating today after completing his Atlantic row challenge, raising a phenomenal £120,000 for The Prostate Cancer Charity.

Jeremy Laurance raises an important issue about the balance of providing the best quality of care for all patients with value for money for the NHS [Why spare the drug companies? Friday 3 February].  However, we strongly dispute the claim that health charities like ours are helping to bankrupt the NHS by calling for patients to be given access to the treatments they need.

The Prostate Cancer Charity comments on draft guidance issued today by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which proposes that they will not recommend abiraterone - a life extending treatment for men in the final stages of prostate cancer - to be made available on the NHS in England and Wales.

The Prostate Cancer Charity comments on new research, published in Annals of Oncology, which shows a potential link between early male pattern baldness, and the risk of developing prostate cancer later in life.

The Prostate Cancer Charity comments on new research published in the Lancet Oncology, which suggests that gene technology could distinguish between aggressive and non-aggressive prostate tumours.

The Prostate Cancer Charity comments on new American research, published in Nature, which has identified genetic structural changes through gene sequencing that could be linked to the development of aggressive prostate cancer.