

PROSTATE SUPPORT GROUPS
One of the entries in the 2024 Pocket Film Festival was about prostate cancer and the importance for men of regular screening to ensure early treatment if anything shows up. It’s not as grim as it sounds – the main character was a bloke called Dick Trouble, and like a good detective, did a little Prostate Detecta-me.
In the course of making this film, members of the Prostate Support Group in Cairns volunteered their stories and advice based on their own experience. So many good stories were told that could not be included in that short film, so this year we are going to do a profile of the four prostate support groups in North Queensland, and how anyone seeking information or support with issues around prostate treatment can get help.
That includes wives and family members as much as the blokes themselves.