It's the most wonderful time of the year - a Robin Cancer Trust and One Minute Briefs collab!
This time we want you to bring joy, love, and our life-saving message to all mankind!
We want you to get people to check their balls this Christmas with #JingleBalls
Whether it's a poster, a poem, a pun - or a Christmas jumper - we want you to go big, ballsy and balls-out with your ideas!
We want you to have as much fun as possible - but let's not forget the serious message behind it all; Testicular Cancer is 96% curable if caught early, but signs & symptoms are often ignored due to embarrassment - our mission is to raise awareness of the signs & symptoms, encourage monthly self-checks, and to break down the stigma of talking about balls!
One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create posters to promote that there's no time like the present & encourage people to check their balls this Christmas. @RCTCharity #JingleBalls
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @RCTCharity with the hashtags #TesticularCancerAwarenessMonth and #TalkingBollocks
Enter as many times as you wish and remember to add your Twitter handle in the top-left corner of your entries. Deadline 6pm GMT
Prizes:
£150 cash prize for the winner, with Billy's Ballbags Merch & RCT Goodie Bag.
Testicular Cancer stats:
Testicular cancer is 96% curable if detected early – meaning men surviving 5 years or more
2,400 people are diagnosed with testicular cancer every year in the UK – that’s more than 6 per day
Incidence rates have increased by more than a quarter since the early 1990's
Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in men aged 15-45 - with the highest rates in men ages 30-34
Signs and symptoms:
Lumps
Hardness
Swelling
Pain
Heaviness
How to check your balls:
The best time to check your balls is during, or just after, a hot bath or shower. This is when your balls are relaxed, making it much easier to check.
Follow these 5 steps:
Check one testicle at a time using both hands (it is normal for one testicle to be slightly bigger than the other)
Gently roll your testicle between your fingers and thumb (do not squeeze!)
Your Epididymis (sperm cord) is attached to your testicle and may feel tender when you are checking yourself
Feel for the signs & symptoms of testicular cancer (or anything not normal for you)
Repeat every month
Find out more here: https://www.therobincancertrust.org/testicular-cancer
About The Robin Cancer Trust
We are the UK's germ cell cancer community. Our mission is to stop young adults dying from germ cell cancer - we do this through raising awareness with our life-saving cancer campaigns, engaging young adults with our digital education programmes & empowering the germ cell cancer community across the UK.
Since 2012, we have reached tens of millions of people online, engaged with hundreds of thousands of people in the community, and delivered life-saving educational talks to over 100,000 young adults in schools, colleges & businesses across the region.
The Robin Cancer Trust was founded in 2012 by the Freeman family following the untimely death of their son and brother, Robin Freeman, aged just 24.
Robin was diagnosed in the prime of his life in 2011 with a Mediastinal Germ Cell Tumour (a grapefruit-sized tumour in his chest). Following 10 months in treatment, including several rounds of chemotherapy and a stem-cell transplant, he was told there was nothing else his medical team could do. He passed away surrounded by his loved ones on December 10th 2011.
His family promised him that ‘he would never just be a photograph on the wall’ and that something good would be born of his tragedy. Robin inspires us to raise awareness, reduce embarrassment and save young lives through the early detection of germ-cell cancers.
Other links:
https://www.facebook.com/TheRobinCancerTrust/
https://twitter.com/rctcharity
https://www.instagram.com/rctcharity
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