Movember

As we welcome the month formerly known as November, the Castlefield Team are planning to sport moustaches in aid of Movember. Our colleagues will start the month clean shaven and do their best to cultivate an impressive mo.

Movember is intended to turn men who are moustachioed for the cause into walking talking billboards for the 30 days in order to raise funds and much needed awareness around the often ignored issues of men’s health.

Here are some shocking facts:

• 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience some kind of mental health problem in the course of a year

• Suicide is the single most common cause of death in men under 35

• In the UK, 1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer at some stage in their lives

• A man will die from prostate cancer every hour - more than 10,000 men will die of the disease this year in the UK

• African Caribbean men are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer

• You are 2.5 times more likely to develop prostate cancer if your father or brother has had it

• Occurrences of prostate cancer in men are comparable to the rates of breast cancer in women

• 2,209 men in the UK were diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2009

• 47% of testicular cancer cases occur in men under 35 years and over 90% occur in men under 55 years

It’s not just the Castlefield men who are showing their support. Female colleagues have joined the Movember team too and have chosen to take on various challenges in aid of the Men’s Health cause such as giving up social media and sweet treats to show solidarity with the hairy hombres.

Our Castlefield team is appropriately named The Thoughtful Movestor. Please visit our Movember team page using the link below and donate to the cause.

http://moteam.co/the-thoughtful-movestor