The poem below encapsulates how the FOPS do their counselling The wise old owl sat on an oak,The more he listened the less he spokeThe less he spoke the more he heard That wise old owl - why can't I be like that bird....

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Dear FOPS and Friends of the FOPS,?? 2011 has been a rather eventful year. Due to the kindness of Arthur the owner of the Bedford Arms, whose twin brother passed away in his seventies from prostate cancer complications, we have continued to hold our monthly Council Meetings in the Chess Room at the Bedford Arms, Chenies. In January we were soon made aware of our responsibilities to those sufferers whom we were keen to befriend by Elizabeth Martindale a charismatic experienced teacher from Macmi[...]

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Please note our local pharmacist named in the article below should read Pradeep Pandya and not Pradeep Shah

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A Bioscanner in every Pharmacy We Friends of Prostate Sufferers (FOPS) hosted a Prostate Roadshow there last June with a tripartite Consultants Forum of David Baxter Smith, Alvan Pope and Julian Shah who first explained the prostate and then answered questions for over an hour which encouraged 150 men to give blood for PSA testing. Since then we have been advertising the new Bioscanners, supplied by the Graham Fulford Trust, which are now installed in both local Pharmacies and doing a great jo[...]

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It's always good to feel your efforts are being appreciated and know that you are achieving your objectives. Below is a letter which is testimony to that.

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The Founding Fathers As 2010 came to a close it seemed appropriate to review our achievements and to focus on how we can best advance our aims of support and awareness in 2011. Firstly we should be aware of the considerable progress that we have made in our inaugural year, as the agenda for our first meeting in January indicates. So as our first year ends we should ‘Rejoice’ in establishing the FOPS awareness and counselling campaigns, not only in Chorleywood but within other org[...]

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Watford Observer on-line Dec 25th 2010 and in paper - also below an article fron the Uxbridge Gazette The race for a festive top-ten hit has long since finished, but a Chorleywood musician has written and recorded a song for his own Christmas number ones – the staff at Mount Vernon Hospital. Earlier this week national newspaper headlines slammed Britain's below-average survival rates for both breast and bowel cancer. However, former teacher and prostate-cancer patient Bob Arthy, of Chal[...]

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Summary The proposed “Riskman” randomised controlled trial will evaluate a significantly improved approach to prostate cancer screening focussing on how we screen and who we screen. If successful it would completely change the debate on prostate cancer screening within 5 years. Background Cancer represents a failure of control of cellular growth and cancer becomes more difficult to treat the later it is diagnosed as a cascade of molecular and pathological events occur, as such ear[...]

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Professor Roger Kirby, Consultant Urologist at The London Clinic, talks about prostate cancer screening and the treatment options available

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