The worst place in England to get prostate cancer

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Thursday, 31 July 2025 Welcome to From the Editor – the very best from our newsroom delivered to your inbox daily. Today, The Telegraph can reveal which are the worst places in England to be diagnosed with prostate cancer, as part of our campaign for targeted screening. Laura Donnelly, our Health Editor, explains how men are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with the terminal disease in some parts of the country than others. I’d love to hear what you think of this newsletter. You can email me your feedback here. Chris Evans, Editor P.S. You can enjoy three months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. 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Patients in Devon and Cornwall fared worst of all, followed by those in Yorkshire, the North East and Cumbria, according to the first study to examine geographical variation in such detail. Those in London had the best chance, with the lowest number of cases being diagnosed when the disease had spread beyond the prostate, along with Kent and Medway, Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Laura Donnelly Health Editor   Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the UK - one in eight will get it. The Telegraph is campaigning for the introduction of targeted screening, with extra checks for those at greatest risk of the disease. I’ve been examining data which shows just how precarious the current system is. When prostate cancer is diagnosed early, five-year survival is close to 100 per cent. Once it has spread, that drops by half. Yet GPs are discouraged from offering prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests, and some even refuse them. Data revealed in the National Prostate Cancer Audit shows that too often the chance of survival comes down to simple geography. As a result, men who live in Devon and Cornwall are almost twice as likely as those in London to only receive a diagnosis when cancer is metastatic. Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, says the findings are “deeply troubling”; the question now is what the Government will do to act on them. 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