Early in 2004, when I was 58, I went to see my GP about my twice nightly visits to the toilet. I knew that it is a common occurrence amongst men of my age and expected to be referred for ‘a simple procedure’ to the prostate gland to fix the problem. First, as a routine, I was asked to have a blood test. A few weeks later, I happened to be at my local surgery seeing the nurse for something trivial so mentioned I hadn’t…
