Prostate Cancer

Have you ever thought what might have caused it all in the first place?

Old age I always assumed because everybody says that when men get past 55 most of them tend to have prostate problems. Why it should become cancerous I wouldn't know but certainly the very fact that there isn't any other cancer in the body it's obviously a localised thing to do with prostates and I've just left it at that. But I do think it's old age.
 

Have you ever thought about what might have caused the problem in the first place?

Well no I haven't really, no, because there's so many people get it, there's about 10-15,000 people, chaps a year die from it that I've read about. It's just one of those things, for some reason the prostate grows and causes pressure on the 'you know' and it's one of those things.
 

Have you ever thought about what causes cancer, do you think certain groups are more vulnerable than others or, has it ever crossed your mind?

I would love to know - I haven't got a clue - the only information we've gleaned of any substance is that it does seem to go to some extent in families. I would suspect that my father has had problems in that direction, I'm sure he has but as he's an older man he's probably very wisely not taking it any further and I sincerely hope that by the time my son might get into vulnerable years there's a cure been found. But I've no idea whatsoever whether it was my diet or whether, whatever it was, I haven't any idea at all. I'd love to know if there is any information that comes out, if anyone ever discovers.
 

I did ask or at least my wife asked the consultant whether it could be stress related and of course he wasn't able to say yes it was although he did say 'Well you know there is a possibility.' My own belief is that it is stress related. I think that there's things that can trigger it off, not just what I have but other things as well - yes, I believe that.

I believe that most serious illnesses are caused by diet and stress and I think an imbalance of diet and stress can cause most things and I think that most cancers are brought on by stress. Nearly everybody I've known who's had cancer has had some form of stress.
 

Well my thought is, is testosterone, the exercise and the things perhaps that guys do generating testosterone, could be that be the reason that the tumour develops at the rate of which the tumour develops because if it's testosterone fed and you're producing more than average testosterone is that the case? I don't know, that one has only recently come to mind and it was only because I read an article on the production of testosterone and the things that can produce it and it would seem that athletes, I'm not an athlete but I like to run, people who swim regularly, people who ride bikes that sort of activity produces what's seen to be a healthy body and a very healthy supply of testosterone.
 

Yes, yes I've worked all my life with electronic equipment which emits a large amounts of electro static and electro magnetic emissions from it which I suspect may be a cause. And also back in 92 when my daughter died that affected me very, very deeply indeed and I think there possibly comes a time in your life when something like that happens you become very, very vulnerable to something going wrong in your body, in your system, your immune system may be doesn't may be work as well as what it should do or it doesn't pick up a rogue cancer cell here and there which it normally should. And I think a combination of the two looking back now is possibly what caused my illness, but that's only a theory, I can't prove any of that.