Dr Chris also explained how common prostate cancer is.
“Just to give people a sense of the scale of this there’s an old saying which is if you live to the age of 80, 80 percent of the time you will have prostate cancer,” he said.
“And that’s absolutely true, it’s very common and the vast majority of men will get it.
“But the wrinkle is that unlike some cancers, let’s take pancreatic cancer for example, if you’re diagnosed with that you have a really high likelihood that that’s what you will die of, with prostate cancer only about 10 percent of the people who are diagnosed with it or have it will actually die of it rather than with it.
“Very frequently people will pass away from something else but incidentally they may have prostate cancer in the background.”
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