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Good news from Macmillan: David Warner of the Exmouth & Budleigh Salterton branch of North & East Devon Prostate Support Association with Tricia Heard, Area Chair, East Devon Macmillan Cancer Support Well, here we are at the start of what I've been told is Prostate Awareness Month. After the experience that I described at http://budleighbrewsterunited.blogspot.com/2009/12/dealing-with-some-old-chestnuts.html I was beginning to wonder how aware one can be of something that isn't there. But then a Budleigh friend who'd learnt what I'd been through just over a year ago shocked me by saying he'd soon be following in my footsteps. Except that he wasn't sure if I'd done the right thing. I hadn't actually been aware that this month was special until we were told the news by the guest speaker at my local Prostate Support Association meeting last week. Tricia Heard is the Area Chair for East Devon Macmillan Cancer Support. In fact she told us that it...