It has been a while since I posted on here. A full recovery from prostate cancer, the most common cancer for men, is a much longer business that I expected (despite a good initial recovery from surgery). However, the news that Chris Hoy’s public encouragement to get more men tested— even if you do not have symptoms— needs backing and encouraging. There has been a surge in requests for test. Remember GPS can be reluctant to test you if you have no symptoms, as happened to me. Many others, including me, who had no symptoms of the cancer before diagnosis, have said before that this needs to be introduced and at a younger age. Wider tests for prostate cancer! Let’s hope Wes Streeting does something about it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/articles/cgejgnxzg32o
In my case after surgery in 2023, I am cancer free, thank goodness, and after a bumpy few months of this year, when I felt quite low (not unusual I have been told by medics) I am now making good progress in my recovery.
I will probably write about it in more detail here in due course, but after the initial elation of first being cancer free, I realised there was still a long way to go before feeling more normal again and that it would take much longer than I had expected, or appreciated, and possibly much longer than I had been told at the beginning of treatment, to become as recovered as I could be.
f you want to read this whole blog from the beginning, please click here.https://northofmynuts.co.uk/take-action-to-i…ove-your-chances/
If you have questions about my prostate cancer story, please ask them.
Read more about earlier in my prostate cancer story here:
For more information on the condition you can look at https://prostatecanceruk.org/
David such an important blog. Totally readable & relatable. May you continue to go from strength to strength. xx
Thank you Vicky! Please tell others to take note. We can reduce the scourge of prostrate cancer by united action.
I agree with you David often men leave it too late on PSA tests or prostrate examination and it gets out of control. A friend of mine knew he had prostate cancer and had radium treatment and because of the Covid lockdowns were overlooked by the NHS for follow-up tests. When he had a further test it escalated to untreatable Prostate cancer.
Yes, David there are too many examples like the one you mention for the system to not improve testing.