Movember (Men’s Health Awareness Month) - November 2026

Movember, also known as Men’s Health Awareness Month, takes place annually in November. The aim is to raise awareness of men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources on these topics. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS

• This book could help: the men's head space manual; Akinsete, Rotimi; MIND; 2019; (Michael O’Mara Books Ltd)

• Man alive: the health problems men face and how to fix them; Foster, Jeff; 2021; (Piatkus)

• The gendered landscape of suicide: masculinities, emotions, and culture; Cleary, Anne; 2019; (Palgrave Macmillan)

• Boys don't cry: why I hid my depression and why men need to talk about their mental health; Grayburn, Tim; 2018; (Hodder & Stoughton)

• Understanding self-harm and suicide for nurses and health practitioners; Housden, Sarah; 2026; (Routledge)

• The stranger on the bridge: my journey from despair to hope; Benjamin, Jonny; Pflüger, Britt; 2019; (Bluebird)

• Prostate: a family affair; Elson, Harry; 2025; (Softwood Books)

• Fast Facts: Prostate cancer; Kirby, R. S; Patel, Manish I; 2014; (Health Press); 8th edition.

• Testicular Cancer: New Insights on the Origin, Genetics, Treatment, Fertility, General Health, Quality of Life and Sexual Function; Garolla, Andrea; De Giorgi, Ugo; Milardi, Domenico; 2020 – available as an Open Access e-book.

• Challenging cases in urological surgery; Pang, Karl; Catto, James; 2022; (Oxford University Press) – available as an NHS or Keele e-book.

• Urological surgery; Biers, Suzanne; Reynard, John; 2020; (Oxford University Press); 2^nd edition – available as a print book and available as both an NHS and Keele e-book.

• Evolution of Treatments of Prostate Cancer: From Biology to Current Advanced Technologies; Munoz, Fernando; 2026; (MDPI) – available as an Open Access e-book.

JOURNALS   

• Journal of Men’s Health (Andrew John Publishing) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2015 onwards.

• Harvard men's health watch (Online); (Harvard Medical School Health Publications Group) – available as a Keele e-journal from 2002 onwards.

• Trends in urology & men’s health; (Wiley) – available as a Keele e-journal from 2010 and as an Open Access e-journal from 2024 onwards.

• American journal of men’s health; (Sage) – Available as an Open Access e-journal from 2007 onwards and available as a print journal from the Health Library from 2007 to 2013.

• Archives of suicide research (Online); International Academy for Suicide Research, issuing body; (Taylor & Francis) – available as a Keele e-journal from 1997 onwards.

• Prostate cancer; Hindawi Publishing Corporation; (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2011 onwards.

• Urologic oncology (Online); Society of Urologic Oncology; (Elsevier) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 1995 onwards.

• European urology oncology; European Association of Urology, sponsoring body; (Elsevier) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2018 onwards.

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT logins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. NHS ejournals will require login with an NHS Open Athens account.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES

• “Long-term Risks of Depression and Suicide Among Men with Prostate Cancer: A National Cohort Study”; Crump, Casey; Stattin, Pär; Brooks, et al; European urology, 2023-09, Vol.84 (3), p.263-272.

• “Masculinities and suicide: unsettling 'talk' as a response to suicide in men”; Chandler, Amy; Critical public health, 2022-08, Vol.32 (4), p.499-508.

• “The role of informal caregivers in suicide prevention for men– findings from a psychological autopsy study”; Hofmann, Laura; Springer, Anna-Lena; et al; BMC public health, Vol.25 (1), p.370-10.

• “Improving suicide prevention in men”; Fazel, Seena; PLoS medicine, 2026-06, Vol.23 (6), p.e1005169.

• “European Study of Prostate Cancer Screening — 23-Year Follow-up”; Roobol, Monique J; de Vos, Ivo I; Månsson, Marianne; et al; New England Journal of Medicine, 2025-10, Vol.393 (17), p.1669-1680.

• “Evaluating an AI Chatbot “Prostate Cancer Info” for Providing Quality Prostate Cancer Screening Information: Cross-Sectional Study”; Owens, Otis L; Leonard, Michael S; JMIR cancer, 2025-05, Vol.11, p.e72522-e72522.

• “Effect of Brochure and Audio Recordings of Testicular Cancer Stories on Testicular Self‐Examination: Randomized Controlled Study”; Ucar, Ayse Kılıc; Aykac, Irem; Tastan, Sevinc; Public health Nursing, 2025-05, Vol.42 (3), p.1137-1146.

• “The experience of fertility concerns in patients with testicular cancer: a qualitative study”; Hu, Ya; Fu, Xue; Jiang, Xiaoya; et al; Supportive care in cancer, 2024-08, Vol.32 (8), p.529, Article 529.

• “Screening of adolescents for testicular cancer-a nationwide retrospective cohort study”; Zloof, Yair; Erlich, Tomer; et al; American journal of epidemiology, 2026-04, Vol.195 (4), p.1009-1014.

• “Long-term side effects of testicular cancer and treatment (observational study of mortality and morbidity in testicular cancer survivors)”; Khan, MRaheel; Sheehan, Patrice Kearney; Bazin, Ashley; et al; Supportive care in cancer, 2025-05, Vol.33 (5), p.413, Article 413.

• “Incidence of testicular cancer in trans women using gender‐affirming hormonal treatment: a nationwide cohort study”; Nie, Iris; Wiepjes, Chantal M; et al; BJU international, 2022-04, Vol.129 (4), p.491-497.

• “Self‐perceptions of masculinities and testicular cancer: Qualitative explorations”; Dax, Victoria; Ftanou, Maria; Tran, Ben; et al; Psycho-oncology (Chichester, England), 2024-03, Vol.33 (3), p.e6333-n/a.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE

• NHS website:
• Prostate cancer - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/prostate-cancer/
• Testicular cancer - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/testicular-cancer/
• Depression - https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/depression-in-adults/overview/

• Charities / Further information:
• Movember - https://movember.com/
• Tough to Talk - https://www.toughtotalk.com/
• Samaritans - https://www.samaritans.org/
• Prostate Cancer UK - https://prostatecanceruk.org/
• Oddballs Foundation - https://theoddballsfoundation.com/

• ClinicalKey Patient Education Leaflet [available via ClinicalKey for NHS members with Open Athens log-in]:
• Prostate cancer: what to know - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_2165d4b0-19b3-4cad-9a35-0aed4123c1fa
• Screening for prostate cancer - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_abe5e9fe-cceb-47b0-ae2b-6c7094da5144
• Cancer of the testicles: what to know - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_6206d955-564f-4005-b61e-1f4199520710
• Surgery to remove lymph nodes - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_4014dfdd-a3a8-4cdc-8b95-0005314f0c03
• Helping someone with suicidal thoughts - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_557d9edf-2772-4698-bfdb-cb16c3e2b428 [note the contact phone numbers at the end are not for the UK]
• Depression in adults: how to manage - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_f08d6e7c-be53-4ac1-ad58-340c004ff212

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