Interview 33

Age at interview: 72

Age at diagnosis: 70

Brief Outline: Diagnosed with prostate cancer 1998, TURP in 1998, short hormone treatment and prostatectomy in 1998.

Background:

Comments that screening can cause a lot of unnecessary fear and that we should wait for a more guaranteed test before endorsing it.

To go to total screening, you would terrify so many people that you would cause a lot more harm than good. I'm not saying that if a future test were developed or the PSA test was improved then it shouldn't be done but until you've got a guaranteed test and an assured treatment then I would certainly vote against introducing it.