Bruce

Age at interview: 88

Age at diagnosis: 82

Brief Outline:

Bruce sought medical advice after experiencing changes both in his sexual potency and in his frequency of urination. Increasing PSA test scores and a biopsy led to a diagnosis of prostate cancer in December 2005. He started hormone treatment in January 2006.

Background:

Bruce is a professional, retired and living in Northern Ireland.

Bruce sought medical advice after experiencing changes both in sexual potency and frequency of urination.

And did you know about your brother-in-law’s experience, was that what prompted you to go very quickly to the doctor?

 

Not really, no not really, this had happened years before, but when I had the experience of a lack of potency, it was obviously, there was something there, because I never had any trouble, we were married for fifty-two years, never had a problem before, and then I was getting up at night and so on and so on, so that all pointed to having an investigation which I had.