The link above will take you to a 2017 recording of a Shropshire radio interview between Eric Smith and a gentleman called Harold Taylor. For those who are not familiar with Harold’s story, he was one of the 420- plus men who came to our prostate testing in March. As a direct result of that testing he was referred for further tests and subsequently discovered that he had an aggressive form of prostate cancer. Harold has now completed a course of hormone treatment followed by radiotherapy at the Lingen Davies unit at Shrewsbury Hospital. And when he saw his oncologist on 22nd January he learned that the treatment had been successful and that he would now need only 3 monthly monitoring by blood tests. That is an amazing result but, as you will hear in the interview, things could have been so very different had Harold not decided to join the queue for testing back in March 2017.
Harold and his wife Jackie, shown pictured above, have retained regular contact with us since March and they are both dedicated to waving the banner very publicly for PSA testing. The interview with Eric Smith was part of that and it provides a salutary lesson for anyone with doubts about the benefits of PSA testing. As Jackie said in a very recent email “Please pass on our sincere best wishes to all your colleagues in the Lions and Rotary clubs and thank you so much for helping us to have a future thank heavens for your PSA events”
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