In Scotland one man in three with prostate cancer is detected too late to be cured, according to new data from Prostate Cancer UK. In London, it is one in eight. This cannot carry on.

Prostate cancer is very common. Every day, about 140 men in the UK are told they have they have the disease. Every year, about 12,000 men die.

But, all the while we have no routine screening for prostate cancer, detection will be down to luck and, as this research shows, a postcode lottery.

In the past we haven't been able to screen for prostate cancer because we haven't had a test which was accurate enough. In fact, the tests we have had have led to over-diagnosis and over-treatment.

All that may be about to change. Read our article: Prostate Cancer Screening - where are we now? for the full story.

We could be at the start of a journey that will make prostate screening for men as routine as breast screening is for women.