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By the time Craig was diagnosed with prostate cancer, it had already spread through his body.
“I had no symptoms whatsoever, but I’d noticed a lump in my groin.”
Craig didn’t think the lump was a concern, but decided to see his doctor anyway. His doctor confirmed it was a hernia, and ran a routine series of health checks, including a PSA test for prostate cancer.
At the time, Craig was a healthy and fit 59-year-old, with a physically active job with a national steel roofing business.
Just 18 months earlier, his PSA had been 2.3 – barely a blip on the radar, and well under the threshold of 3 for men his age – but when the result came back at 68, his anxiety spiked.
He was urgently referred to a specialist for more tests and a scan.
“After the scan, I still thought I was going to be okay, because I felt fine,” Craig told me.
He’ll never forget what happened next.
“It was the worst kind of news you can ever get: The doctor told me I had prostate cancer, and that it had already spread around my body.”
A wave of disbelief washed over Craig as his doctor showed him the lesions on his scan. Several dark masses dotted his lymph nodes, ribs, spine, pelvis, and bowel. He felt paralysed by the news.
With your donation this Christmas, researchers can bring lethal prostate cancers out of the dark and into the light, so that men like Craig in your life never have to experience the shocking news he received.
In an instant Craig went from feeling fit and strong, to facing death. “I was constantly thinking; am I going to die? How long do I have?”
Thankfully, because of kind and generous individuals like you who have contributed to earlier research, Craig has already started on treatment to try and slow his prostate cancer from spreading.
“Given my age and fitness, I’ve started on a new triple treatment, including hormone and chemotherapy. It’s tough, but I’ve told them to do whatever they need to do.”
Of the many ways you can make a difference, supporting new research to improve the detection of deadly prostate cancers is critical.
And that’s why your support this Christmas is just so vital.
By the time Craig was diagnosed with prostate cancer, it had already spread through his body.
“I had no symptoms whatsoever, but I’d noticed a lump in my groin.”
Craig didn’t think the lump was a concern, but decided to see his doctor anyway. His doctor confirmed it was a hernia, and ran a routine series of health checks, including a PSA test for prostate cancer.
At the time, Craig was a healthy and fit 59-year-old, with a physically active job with a national steel roofing business.
Just 18 months earlier, his PSA had been 2.3 – barely a blip on the radar, and well under the threshold of 3 for men his age – but when the result came back at 68, his anxiety spiked.
No man or his family should have to face the agony of a deadly prostate cancer diagnosis.
But the tragic reality is that 3,975 Australian men lose their lives to the disease every year.
1 in 5 men are likely to be
diagnosed in their lifetime
Nearly 29,000 men are
diagnosed each year
11 men die each day
from
prostate cancer
Your Christmas gift can bring deadly prostate cancer out of the dark and into the light.
This Christmas, you can help inspire new platforms pointing the way to precision medicines that save thousands of lives.
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