Prostate Cancer Awareness: How a golf injury revealed my prostate cancer

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00:00Hi, I'm health reporter Sarah McCann. One in eight men are diagnosed with prostate cancer.

00:06This autumn, Prostate Cancer UK is launching a campaign to raise awareness of a worrying

00:11new trend that has seen many men receive their cancer diagnosis completely by chance. Today

00:17I am joined by Peter Ellis, who only discovered he had prostate cancer after experiencing

00:22a golf injury. Thank you so much for joining us today, Peter. I really appreciate you taking

00:27the time to talk about your experience. What led you to discovering that you had prostate

00:32cancer? I was playing golf. I was captain of my local golf club. Then my golf club were

00:41advertising that they were going to do prostate tests. I actually mentioned it to my GP when

00:48I was doing it and she says, Oh, I can do that. I can do that when, when you're having

00:55your next blood test. Three days after that blood test, they said, can you come in? Two

01:01days after that, after going in and having been told that there's a possibility here

01:08that you've got prostate cancer. I was at urology in Manchester and they said, sorry,

01:16but you've got prostate cancer. Following that, straight away, I had a full body scan and another

01:27PSA test. Yeah, it was, it was mad. It really was mad. It only spread, well, it had spread to just

01:40outside my prostate. So they then said, and start on hormone injections. Now those injections, I've

01:50been on them for the last two years and I've just finished them. I went to the Christie's. I had 20

01:59days of radiotherapy. That was from the 14th of February. No, it was from the 23rd of February, sorry, to the 22nd of March.

02:14So you, it must have been quite a shock because you didn't experience any symptoms of prostate cancer.

02:20It was an absolute shock, but the treatment that I've had has stopped the cancer. I've recently had a PSA test. They

02:32don't do PSA, once you've had that condition and you've had the treatment, they don't do another PSA test for six

02:44months. So six months later, I have the PSA test and it's 0.1, which is less than six. It was absolutely brilliant.

02:58Is there anything that you would like people to know about prostate cancer?

03:01I go down to my golf club. There's 200 senior members there. One in eight of us are going to get prostate cancer.

03:15That's what happens. As soon as you say in the golf club, you know, I've got prostate cancer. Oh yeah, well, so and so

03:24So, you know, it's out there, but people don't talk about it as much as they should. And one in four black men will get it.

03:40So really, we need to tell that to people, tell that to you.