Table 1.

Typography of themes, sub-themes and categories related to the information needs of men with prostate cancer

Theme	Sub-themes	Categories
Personalised information to answer worrying questions	What’s happening in the beginning?	Blood testing in primary health clinics Reasons for being sent between hospitals
	What does this mean to my life and me?	What is cancer, and specifically prostate cancer? Where is it in relation to the body? How serious is it? Why the treatments? What to do and not to do?
	The radiation treatments?	About the treatment? How will the radiation affect the body? What happens next?
Information needs to address the general connotations of prostate cancer	Shame in the illness	Blame for not understanding Being seen “as a cancer” “Man issues”
	Message to other men	“Getting tested”