I just want to raise awareness. Please read.
My lovely husband decided, with all the awareness about cancer screening in mind, to get his prostate screened. Turns out there isn't a screening process , his Gp surgery weren't interested and neither were his work health insurers. I'd heard of charities doing something but we couldn't find a current program. So my 57year old went to his Gp and asked fairly firmly for a prostate screen and while she was at it could one of his moles be looked at; it wasn't big, it wasn't dark it is just that it had changed shape a little. She was persuaded to refer for both issues but said she really didn't think he had cancer (yup said exactly that.
On Thursday last week at 2 different appointments he was told in the morning he had Melanoma and in the afternoon that he had prostate cancer. Both totally unrelated issues. The melanoma has been caught early, he needs more tests for the prostate.
Screening is really necessary. There were no symptoms at all for the prostate cancer and very little for the skin one.