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Hello and welcome back to a new series of Inside Health.

Little in Medicine is quite as black and white as it's often portrayed. So along with our normal eclectic mix of medical matters,

uncertainty is going to be a recurring theme over the next few months. And if there's one area

riddled with uncertainty, it's the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, the subject of today's programme. I didn't choose to have cancer, but I chose to do something about it, if you like. I had it removed, you know, I'm no expert, but from, you know, go and have a blood test, go and go check, it's no big deal. Have any of your friends done just that as a result of what's going to you? I believe someone we're going to go and I spoke to my brother and I think he's going to go and have his done.

It makes sense. I can't see why you wouldn't. I think what we have to do is inform the men

that if we treat them, there is a high chance that the treatment is unnecessary. But we can't

distinguish the good apples from the bad apples,

and that's the dilemma that we have.

It's a matter of weighing up the consequences of our treatment,

and in most cases there will be after effects,

with what I've got now, which is a good life.

So it was an informed decision to go for active surveillance.

Yes.

Some people might find that hard, though, the prospect of knowing that there's a cancer inside them

that effectively isn't being treated.

My view was that I'm fit and healthy.

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