
Hello
I will never forget the moment when the consultant said to me “I’m sorry to have to tell you Mr Colegrove, you have prostate cancer”. My fiancée squeezed my hand as we wondered about our future.
The consultant then offered me two alternative treatments; a radical prostatectomy (surgery) or brachytherapy (a form of radiotherapy) both of which he told me carry a 40% risk of some distressing side effects namely impotence and/or incontinence. I was in my 50’s and about to get married. For me, young and active describes men in their fifties, sixties, and seventies! Eighties is middle age and nineties is when you finally hit old age. That’s my attitude; I was horrified at the risk of the distressing side effects I was facing. However, I avoided them…