Philly Morris is a leading campaigner for testicular cancer

Testicular cancer

Testicular cancer is cancer that develops in the testicles, a part of the male reproductive system.In the United States, between 7,500 and 8,000 diagnoses of testicular cancer are made each year. In the UK, approximately 2,000 men are diagnosed each year. Over his lifetime, a man's risk of...

 awareness for young men in the UK.

Testicular cancer awareness

After having two types of testicular cancer he set up the UK's most famous testicular cancer website checkemlads.com with the help of well known musicians Steve White and Paul Weller in April 2003. During this time Philly also helped to raise awareness of testosterone replacement, with long-time campaigner and cancer survivor Nick O'Hara Smith, in men who had lost a testicle or testicles to injury or cancer, a subject which had been widely ignored until Nick exerted pressure on health authorities. Philly works alongside his close friend Mick Riley MBE, who also survived cancer of the testicles in 1998, and another testicular cancer survivor and awareness campaigner in the world of professional football/TV and the media, Simon Shakeshaft. Morris and Riley hail from the same area in Merseyside, shared a room in the army and were in the same boxing team in Germany, and both had the same cancer within 5 years of each other; the chances of this are around 560,000:1, which still baffles leading cancer experts today. As of the middle of 2008, checkemlads.com became a registered charity with all three becoming Directors and Trustees, a tribute to the hard work and efforts of Morris and his crusade to raise awareness of this young man's cancer, five and half years ago.

Checkemlads.com testicular cancer charity was the first charity in the world to be named after a website and the only charity with .com in its title. The site currently has had over 3 million hits

External links

• checkemlads.com