00:00is Elon Musk's dad, Errol. We're delighted to have him in the studio and I'm sure Errol's more
00:05delighted to be here in the studio because Errol has come through a prostate cancer battle. This
00:12was last July. You're looking well. Thank you. Yes, and what about the effects of the operation?
00:17You've had your prostate removed. Yes. Yeah, well tell us about that. Well, you know, I went for a
00:23checkup about February last year and cardiology, you know, and then they said I need to go and see
00:32a urologist about my, you know, prostate. So I did and the urologist did a biopsy and so on and then
00:42he said to me that I have adenocarcinoma. So that means the start of cancer, you see. And so I said,
00:51well, I was due to come to England to Westminster Abbey to be at the 30th anniversary of the end
01:01of apartheid, you know, the service in Westminster. Because you're South African. Yes, I was invited
01:05to come and say a few words at Westminster Abbey. So I was quite keen on that. You've just been quite
01:10worried as well. No, no. I said to the doctor, to the urologist, should I, can I go to England or
01:17and do this, see this, be at this service or should I rather have the prostate out? He said,
01:27rather have the prostate out. Yeah. So I gave up the trip to England and I had the prostate out.
01:32Well, you are 79 years of age. Ellie and I were both saying you look very well, you look very fresh
01:38on the fine goodness. Thank you. What would your advice to other men be about prostate?
01:43Well, you know, since this has happened, I've become very much involved with longevity clinics
01:51calling me all over the show and asking me to say something about this because they are
01:58sort of trying to push their idea that people should be tested, you know, down to the DNA level.
02:05Yeah. And that's what's happening. And it's now quite inexpensive.
02:08There's big advances there. There's massive advances.
02:11Yeah. Thank goodness. It's an unnecessary killer.
02:13Most men are not inclined to go for tests. I mean, every man I know would say, oh, I'm not going to do
02:21that, you know, but you really should. And you can do it even with a blood test now, can't you,
02:24in some cases? Well, yes. Mine was a blood test, but no, the blood test is not confirmatory.
02:30The biopsy is. But if you go for the DNA testing, then it's much more, you know, good, much better.
02:40Yeah. And there is conversation in this country at the moment about a national screening program.
02:44Is that something that you would support a prostate screening program?
02:46Yes, of course. Absolutely. Well, I mean, one in eight men in this country is likely to,
02:53probably more than that, likely to contract prostate cancer.
02:57Well, listen.
02:58And there's about half a million with prostate cancer.
02:59Well, hopefully you live for many men.
03:01Well, thank you.
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