Wanted to bring this to the community because the message is get checked, do not wait. I read that Jeremy Clarkson, 66, has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer. He told the two men he works with on his own show, and he said something that stuck with me: it is aggressive, but it was caught early. Aggressive and early do not usually go together. One is bad luck. The other is the bit that gives a man choices. He did not catch it early by being tough. He caught it because he got checked. A test, a biopsy, an answer - while he still had time to act. You all know my story. Sixteen years ago a friend at an airport told me I had a prostate problem I had no idea about. I have thought about that moment a thousand times since. Somebody looked, and it changed everything. I started to learn. Then I realized nobody was talking about it, everybody wants it to go away. It will not go away, and the only way to be sure is to get checked. So here is my question for the community, and I mean it honestly: when did you last get checked? And if it has been a while - what is actually stopping you? No judgement here. I just want to hear it.

This week I pulled three more prostate stories out of the news. A famous man, John Barns, who wanted to add his voice to the fight. Jyoti Shah - NHS surgeon's comment on prostate cancer. And the Cancer Society of Barbados, where more men are coming forward for testing. Same topic, three stories, and what happened. It is good to see more conversations surrounding the prostate. The full newsletter is in the image. Have you ever had to raise this with a man who did not want to hear it? How did you get him to talk about it? Tell me below, you will be helping somebody else.

Something worth chewing on this week. Two of the biggest cancer organisations on the planet looked at the same prostate test - the PSA blood test - and landed on different advice this year. ESMO, the big European cancer society, leans against giving the PSA test to every man across the board. Their worry is that screening everyone also picks up slow cancers that were never going to do harm, and then some men get treated for something that would have left them alone. The AUA, the American urology body, keeps the PSA as the front-line test, used inside a proper conversation between a man and his doctor about his own risk. When I first read that, my instinct was to ask who is right. But that is the wrong question. They are both right, for different men. The experts are not confused - they are weighing the same test for different lives. Which is the whole reason I keep saying knowledge is armor. Nobody can hand you a clean yes or no on this. You have to understand it, know your own body and history, and decide with your doctor. Be the man who asks the question. I am not a doctor. But I would rather understand the test than be told what to do with it. Just remember that a single PSA test, if high can be misleading, you need to establish a baseline to be sure. So I will ask you straight: would you rather know, or not know? And what is making you lean that way?

Quick one that made me think this Men's Health Month. We spend a lot of time talking about why men avoid the prostate check. The fear, the embarrassment, all of it. But the real wall for most men is simpler than that. It is just deciding to go. Booking the appointment. Taking the morning off. They never get past that step. Some groups have figured out a way around it. They stop waiting for men to come to a clinic and instead set up where men already are - a church, a community hall, a weekend rally. Suddenly the man who would never book anything says, alright, it is right here, fine. Nobody lectured me into checking. It took a person and a moment at the airport to realize I might be suffering from BPH - not just getting older. So here is my question for you. If there was a screening event near you this month, who is the one man you would bring along - and what would actually get him in the door?

Someone got the news this year that their dad had prostate cancer. The first thing they felt was dread. Everyone feels that. But the second thing they felt was steadier, because they had read about it before. They were not starting from zero. Here is the part that stuck with me. Because they knew a little, they asked questions at the appointment that had not come up during the conversation. It changed how the man decided to go forward. I am not a doctor. I found my own prostate issue the awkward way, years ago, after a friend at an airport said something to me. I have never forgotten how it felt to know nothing and have to catch up fast. So that is why this community exists. Not to make you experts. To make sure you know enough to ask the next question when it matters. If your dad or your husband got that news next week, what is the one thing you would want to already understand? Tell me below - your answer might be exactly what someone else here needs.