“I went to the doctor and said look, I’ve got a family history here, Can you give me a test,” he said.
“The PSA was very low, very low really up until my late 50s.”
PSA is the protein made by the prostate. Raised levels can indicate cancer, but can also be caused by other factors.
Mr Elson said: “It doubled, and then it doubled again. I said to my doctor I had a groin pain. He said ‘don’t worry about that, it’s nothing to do with that’.
“I started to get really painful in the prostate area. I insisted on another test, which they did, but luckily enough I was seen by another doctor, and he said ‘you’ve got to go and have this investigated’.”
His son, Jeremy, said he was sent for an MRI and a biopsy because of his family history and increase in PSA levels.
“They discovered it because of their interventions as early as one can discover prostate cancer, and in my case I’ve been cured,” he said.
