Players from Wycombe Wanderers Football Club visited Wycombe Hospital yesterday to discover more about how their Scannappeal fundraising efforts will help cancer patients.

Goalkeeper Scott Shearer, midfielder John Mousinho and first team coach Junior Lewis visited the urology ward.

They met consultant urologist Jonathan Greenland and patients recovering from surgery for prostate cancer. The players were told that, according to current statistics, at least one of their football team of 11 players will have prostate cancer later in their life.

WWFC have chosen Scannappeal’s Cancer Fighting Fund as their charity of the 20008/2009 season.

The club aims to raise £25,000 to purchase a specialist tissue processor to speed up biopsy results from men with possible prostate cancer. Over half the amount needed should have been raised by Christmas.

Amanda Martin, director of Scannappeal, said: "We are now half way through our season with Wycombe Wanderers and are really delighted at the support the club, the supporters and players have given to the fundraising and we're pleased that we're half way to the target that they set."

The Cancer Fighting Fund is a long term appeal for state-of-the-art equipment to detect cancer and for the treatment of cancer patients in the Buckinghamshire area.

Its second phase, for £150,000, is for a range of equipment for the rapid diagnosis and treatment of prostate and bladder cancer.

There will be a Scannappeal collection at Adams Park at Wanderers home match against Luton on Saturday December 13.