Interview 37
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Due to a family history of prostate cancer and pressure from a friend he asked for a PSA test to...
Due to a family history of prostate cancer and pressure from a friend he asked for a PSA test to...
And as I said I would be about may be 50, 51 when I had that test and since then I've had a further test, probably eight or nine months ago, round about the end of 2004. On that occasion I actually saw the practice nurse and explained that I'd had the press, the test perhaps two years earlier and could I have another. She said she would have to speak to the doctor about it but she very quickly did that and we, we, she took the test, took the blood sample the same day and again I rang into the doctors some weeks later to find that the test was clear.
He got the result of his PSA test by phoning the receptionist at his local surgery, who said it was normal.
He got the result of his PSA test by phoning the receptionist at his local surgery, who said it was normal.
And did you have to wait long for the results?
No, I was told to ring in within the next fortnight. While I was there, I mean I didn't only have the sample of blood I had a full, a full medical as it were, they took a sample of blood for liver function and you know they did all the normal things that they do on a health check, blood pressure etc etc they check for diabetes and a thousand and one other things. So it was all part and parcel of going for that sort of once, once yearly or once every two-year test just to check on your health. I have good health, I don't, you know I have no worries about my health but I just feel it's important to.
And did you get the results over the telephone then?
Yes I did I spoke with one of the receptionists and I told her the reason for my call and she didn't quote me any facts or figures she just said, 'There is nothing, nothing untoward with, you know with your blood sample.' So...
Did you ever ask for details of the level of the PSA?
I didn't no, I didn't I was, I was satisfied with what she said to me.