Accrington wife's anger at dying husband's diagnosis delay

I think this highlights the need for improved training within the UK health profession as this families experiance clearly shows.This apparent refusal to carry out the basic initial tests for Prostate Cancer ie PSA and DRE within the UK happens all to often!

It also highlights why the increase in public awareness campaigns relating to Prostate Cancer are so important.
I must also point out that the two initial tests (DRE/PSA) are not direct tests for PC but are valuable indicators for the early detection of possible PC where repeated tests can be carried out before the more invasive tests are called into play.



Accrington wife's anger at dying husband's diagnosis delay


THE furious wife of a terminally-ill father-of-three has hit out at the doctors who failed for 11 months to diagnose that he had prostate cancer.

Hospital bosses said that as prostate cancer in a man so young was ‘virtually unheard of’, they had focused on finding a ‘more likely cause’.
Now Carol, of Cambridge Street, Accrington, is urging young men with repetitive urinary problems to demand they are screened for the cancer.

For two years before his diagnosis his family said he had been suffering constant urinary problems and kidney infections.
While on holiday in Tunisia, Glyn, a former security officer and assistant manager of the Little Chef at Rising Bridge, was admitted to a hospital in the African country with severe water retention.

Doctors discovered he had an over enlarged prostate and advised them to seek medical attention when he returned to the UK.

The next day he was flown back to England and saw doctors from Royal Blackburn Hospital.
But Carol said medics dismissed the findings of the Tunisian doctors.

She said: “I will never forget that day.

“We flew back to Britain and saw Glyn’s urologist at Royal Blackburn Hospital and the doctors said ‘Your husband is far too young to have problems with his prostate.’ “11 months later he had a prostate examination and a biopsy. We were called into a room and was told he had prostate cancer.”

Carol said they should have done same tests carried out by Tunisian doctors. “It shouldn’t have been left it until 11 months later when they tested him”, she said.
Mr Fielding has just completed his 10th round of chemotherapy. The cancer has spread to his bladder and bones.

Doctors predict Glyn has just eight months to live but his condition has deteriorated over the last week.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust said tests for prostate cancer were only carried out if there were clinical indicators which suggested the likelihood of cancer being present.
It is not NHS policy to routinely screen for prostate cancer. However it can now be done at the request of the patient.

Accrington wife's anger at dying husband's diagnosis delay UK-12th May