To all the Brits: The ladies have long claimed the right to specific medical checks such as breast and cervix ( With total justification) but the poor guys dying from prostate cancer have taken a back seat when it comes to having regular screening.
Any male should be regularly screened (I hear from age 50). All it takes is a blood test that you can tag on to your cholesterol check. Just ask your surgery for a PSA check. (Prostatic Specific Antigen).
I once had a urologist tell me that he didn't believe in PSA checks. No problem: I told him not to bother in his case but in mine I was going to have one!
Amusingly I first read about it in the BALPA Log many years ago. I took a copy into my local surgery where the staff all took copies for their husbands/boyfriends.