Episode 60: Starting the cancer conversation
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What is the purpose of the World Prostate Cancer Day men’s health event?
Welcome to another episode of Taking Control of Cancer, the podcast brought to you by uh the North East London Cancer Alliance. And I'm I'm here at Goodman's Field uh medical practice in Whitechapel where they're holding a special World Prostate Cancer Day men's health event, uh talking to men about uh prostate cancer but also issues like drinking, uh like weight, like uh general health. Um They're doing blood tests in front of me. Um, an awful lot going on. Probably about 20 or 30 men um in the room finding out everything you need to know. Uh actually, this is a hepatitis C uh test going on in front of me. Um that some chaps are just going through now. Really amazing event. And we're gonna talk to uh Toby, who is one of the GPs here in uh our first episode, uh and then Rishi from the Northeast.
with uh London Cancer Alliance and Boomer, who's one of the GPs uh here in North East London, uh more specifically about prostate cancer. So yeah, that's where we are today. Uh Goodman's uh Goodman's Field Health Centre. Really fantastic event. Um and we'll tell you a bit more about them in the in the following episodes.
Yeah. Hi, yeah, so I'm Toby. I'm a GP here at Goodman's Fields. We're in East London, in Whitechapel. And today we're hosting an event that's our men's health events focused quite a significant amount on prostate cancer, on awareness of prostate cancer, what things people should watch out for, um, and really trying to promote that men should come forward when they have symptoms. or worries to talk to us so that we don't leave things too late. And that things are picked up earlier.
Uh just tell me first a little bit about your work here and specifically, you know, the area that we're in, uh, what kind of challenges you guys face here.
Yeah, so I work as both a GP here but I'm also a health inequalities lead for our organisation Operos Health, um which looks after GP practices across the country, and I'm a health inequalities lead in Tower Hamlets and Hackney, so in parts of northeast London. A lot of my job in terms of our local population is making sure that we have equality in our access, which basically means, in simple terms, making sure that everyone, regardless of your background, your language spoken, where you're from, your cultural beliefs, if you're male, female, that you have the same access to healthcare as anyone else would. We try to find where there are challenges there and try to address those challenges in order to make our care better and to make sure that everyone gets the care they deserve from the NHS.
Um You've obviously focused a bit of your time specifically on cancer awareness, early diagnosis. What what took you down that kind of route?
I think it's something that we see as GPs every day, right? The the old age tale is the GP cares for you from cradle to grave, from the baby that's born on their first day that comes and sees me to your last days. We look after everyone. And that means that we see a lot of cancer as well. We see lots of cancers that present early, but I think as GPs and as I've progressed through my early career journey, we see cancers which present late. And it was those things that made me think more about how we can address and try to build on our care of patients who potentially present slightly later with cancer diagnoses, whether or not we could have picked them earlier. We've done some work in screening. Obviously there are national cancer screening programmes within the UK.
The idea being that these are ways we can pick up cancers before you even have symptoms. But then with those with symptoms, we need to make sure that people know the signs so that they can come and chat to us.
Um we've talked a lot of times on this podcast about you know you guys being the first port of call for people in in so many cases. Um it's worth just kind of re-emphasizing the importance of of you guys, the importance of coming to see you guys whenever anybody, uh not just men, we're talking specifically men today, but you know, whenever whenever anybody has anything they're concerned about.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the World Prostate Cancer Day men’s health event?
0:07–6:35
2
Why does Dr. Toby Lambeth focus on early cancer diagnosis and health inequalities?
6:35–12:09
3
What reasons keep men from coming forward to their GP with cancer worries?
12:09–19:33
4
How should patients talk about cancer concerns during a GP appointment?
19:33–27:26
5
How are multilingual animated videos improving cancer screening uptake in Tower Hamlets?
27:26–34:25
6
What are the key symptoms of prostate problems that men should watch for?
34:25–38:32
7
Why is the HPV vaccine important for preventing future cancers and who should get it?
38:32–39:51
8
What actions can listeners take to encourage men to speak up about their health?
39:51–40:15
Speakers
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