Prostate Cancer

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Gervais wins award for prostate ad Picture © BBC The contentious advert Ricky Gervais made for the The commercial, which features Ricky Gervais as a doctor conducting a prostate examination on a surprised patient, won the Aerial Gold Best Ad of the Year award as well as its category, for charity and public service ads.

Gervais, who has won countless awards for The Office and Extras, said: ‘I'm very proud of this award.

Cancer charities are particularly close to my heart and it feels good to do something worthwhile now and again.’ Charity chief executive John Neate added: ‘We are enormously grateful to Ricky Gervais for bringing his unique humour and talent to the creation of such a powerful advertisement.

‘I must also thank the Radio Advertising Clearance Centre for the additional media interest created in our advertisement by its initial attempts to censor the times it could be played - later retracted in the light of huge public opposition.’ Initially the watchdog insisted the removal of ‘squish’ sound ...

...Researchers from the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, working with colleagues from UCLA, found the pepper component caused human In mice, capsaicin drove about 80 percent of To continue reading the complete article, login or register below and get free instant access.

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