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During the pandemic, urgent referrals for suspected urological cancer in England dropped by 56,000 from April 2020 to December 2021, resulting in approximately 13,500 fewer men in England starting treatment for prostate cancer compared to the same period in 2019
(Prostate Cancer UK, 2021). This is worrying considering prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK (Prostate Cancer UK, 2021).