Widows of Scots prostate cancer victims have urged all men to get checked. Jean Holloway, 86, and Anne Graham, 62, bravely volunteered to front the campaign as the Prostate Cancer Memorial visited Scotland during a UK tour.
Their husbands’ names, Walter and Albert, are on the 10-foot mirrored steel pyramid. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. In Scotland, 3779 men will be diagnosed each year and 975 will die.
Jean, of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, lost Walter in 2007 and since his death has raised over £35,000.
She said: “One in eight men will get prostate cancer but it can be treatable if caught early enough.”
Dundonian Ann Graham, a former senior nurse, lost Albert to prostate cancer in 2014, following a two-year battle.
Ann, who was with Jean at the St Enoch’s Shopping Centre in Glasgow, said: “Like many men, Albert was too proud to share the burden of his diagnosis with friends and family at first.”
Prostate Cancer UK’s Scottish hub is seeking volunteers.
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