Cancer-beater Ryan battles on

A man who came within weeks of dying from cancer is launching an awareness campaign to help others.

Ryan Walshe, from Seven Dials, Brighton, has been awarded funding from the national People Can Do project for his Beat Male Cancer drive.

He is calling on people in the city to support the move to gen- erate greater public awareness, earlier detection and better patient care.

Mr Walshe, 23, fought off tes ticular cancer in 2010 and is so committed to helping other men beat the disease that he has already given cancer awareness talks to 3,000 local teenagers.

He said: “I nearly died two years ago because I wasn’t aware of cancer symptoms and I made a promise to myself that if I lived I’d do everything I could to help other men and boys become aware of all the differ ent cancers they can get.”

“I started doing talks in schools last year which are already making a difference and now I need help to take the cam paign to the next level.”

“I really want to hear from other cancer survivors, people with experience of cancer and anyone else who wants to help me develop this campaign to beat male cancer in Brighton and Hove.

Mr Walshe is hosting public meetings across the city over the coming weeks.

The first is on Saturday at the Unitarian Church in New Road from midday.

Comments(10)

john5001 says...
11:14am Mon 25 Jun 12

yet another person trying to make money out of illness. it was winehouse yesterday.

Hovite says...
11:56am Mon 25 Jun 12

Absolute cynical rubbish 5001

Ligand Fields says...
12:03pm Mon 25 Jun 12

Are the subs on holiday today? There's no space is "tes ticular". Perhaps these articles are automatically "gen- erated" by an press-release-copyin
g-bot.

curtisfoxy says...
1:27pm Mon 25 Jun 12

Ligand Fields wrote:
Are the subs on holiday today? There's no space is "tes ticular". Perhaps these articles are automatically "gen- erated" by an press-release-copyin g-bot.
Perhaps you should re read your own comment, before commenting on the article!!!

Ligand Fields says...
1:39pm Mon 25 Jun 12

Ah, but I'm not a skilled member of the NUJ, am I? Plus, as you can clearly see, my comment has been hacked by the Argus for the purposes of lampoonery.

Euly says...
2:44pm Mon 25 Jun 12

john5001 wrote:
yet another person trying to make money out of illness. it was winehouse yesterday.
You are a horrible person, keep it to yourself !

Euly says...
2:44pm Mon 25 Jun 12

john5001 wrote:
yet another person trying to make money out of illness. it was winehouse yesterday.
You are a horrible person, keep it to yourself !

Whatthe0002 says...
4:02pm Mon 25 Jun 12

john5001 wrote:
yet another person trying to make money out of illness. it was winehouse yesterday.
It's amazing how negative some people really can be, his trying too make a difference to helping more people know about the symptoms of Testicular Cancer!!

AmboGuy says...
11:02pm Mon 25 Jun 12

Good luck to Ryan, I Jewish him all the success with this venture.

Pay no attention to the notorious troll John5001 who's just trying to get a reaction.

AmboGuy says...
7:26am Tue 26 Jun 12

AmboGuy wrote:
Good luck to Ryan, I Jewish him all the success with this venture.

Pay no attention to the notorious troll John5001 who's just trying to get a reaction.
Meant to say 'wish' him luck!! Auto spell on the iphone strikes again!!!

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