Run by the European Men’s Health Forum (EMHF), www.yourprostate.eu is a new website enabling men across Europe and the world to ask questions anonymously online about their prostates and have them answered promptly and in the detail they need by a highly qualified health professional.
An analysis of the first 100 questions posed shows the two most common subjects to have been frequent urination and pain. Other topics identified are : difficulty urinating, ejaculation, blood in semen, PSA, cancer, mainstream treatments, alternative treatments, side-effects, sex and sexual and reproductive health.
Questions have been posed by males of all ages from pre-teens to over 80s with the majority (approximately 30%) in the 60-69 age-group.
The site will remain open until December.
EMHF director Erick Savoye said : ‘this has been an enormously useful initiative from which we’ve learned a lot about men’s needs. All men with a question about their prostate and if you include all those who don’t know what it is, that means most of us, are urged to log on to www.yourprosate.eu today. It really couldn’t be easier. With no complicated registration, your question will be on its way to an expert within five or ten minutes.’
As well as helping the specific questioners, the material generated and data collected by this service will be used by the EMHF to produce a report to help professionals and policy makers deal with men’s prostate-related healthcare.
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