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fighting states for lung cancer, and Patrick Mortimer, living with heart disease.

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Good morning, Martin.

Good morning, Patrick.

We find ourselves in your car, heading back to Dedham in Essex.

I know.

To see Professor Chris Gooth.

And he's going to talk today on his specialist subject, which is a prostate cat.

Yeah, something really, really important in life.

And something, some people ignore, which I think, you know, once you start feeling the symptoms, and Chris will certainly talk about that, I'm sure.

You get into contact with someone and get sorted.

So please listen, guys.

So without further ado, Chris, if you'd be kind enough to start where you left off.

Thank you.

So the PSA test you think should be

mandatory really. This gets us into the very checkered history of PSA and the arguments around

screening. At the moment, PSA is the only cheap blood test that we have for, if you like,

getting into a diagnosis of either benign enlargement of the prostate, because that puts the PSA

up, or prostate cancer. Whether you can use it for mass screening is, of course, the subject of hot debate at the moment.

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