David Simcock has helped about 3,500 men get tested for prostate cancer.
A prostate cancer survivor who has organised cancer testing sessions for thousands of men has been nominated for his town's citizen of the year award.After his recovery, he decided to set up the sessions in the town through Whitchurch Rotary Club, resulting in about 3,500 men being tested to date.
"I thought: 'I don’t want anybody else to go through this', because you do not know you’ve got it. You don’t feel it, you don’t feel ill, it’s a shock," said Mr Simcock.He went to the doctors with a totally unrelated illness, and was sent for a blood test because he had not had one for some time. From there, Mr Simcock was brought back for various tests and biopsies, after he was told his prostate specific antigen was raised.It is this experience that inspired him to start the testing sessions."Up to now, we’ve done roughly 3,500 men and that has cost us nearly £80,000.""This year I had 957 men come through.The award, Whitchurch Citizen of the Year, is organised by Whitchurch Town Council.
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