A leading doctor has shared an early sign of prostate cancer following Chris Hoy’s heartbreaking diagnosis revealed earlier in the week.
The six-time Olympic gold medallist revealed on Saturday, October 19, that he has been told by medics that he has just two to four years to live after they discovered he has prostate cancer.
Writing in his new book, All That Matters, Chris said: ‘And just like that, I learn how I will die.’
With waves of support being sent to Chris and his family in recent days, TikTok GP Dr Ahmed admitted that ‘cancer in young people is getting more common’ due to its subtle symptoms.
Explaining that there is one symptom of the cancer that is going overlooked, Dr Ahmed told his followers that Chris initially visited doctors with shoulder pain, which he thought was a gym injury.
However, Dr Ahmed said this can be ‘first presenting complaint’ of prostate cancer. He added that back pain, shoulder pain and swollen lymph nodes can all be signs of the disease.
Sadly for Chris, his cancer spread to his bones after being left undetected, leaving him with just a handful of years left to live.
Additionally, Dr Ahmed said that the most common early signs of prostate cancer are ‘urinary’, this includes having to go to the toilet more often, having blood in your urine or waking up multiple times in the night needing to go to the toilet.
Dr Ahmed went on to say the symptoms can be easily missed by young people and that a number of less common symptoms shouldn’t go ignored.
These include de abdominal pain, tenesmus – the constant feeling of needing to empty your bowels or bladder, even if you already have – weight loss and ‘any new constipation’.
‘Like all cancers, the earlier we catch it, the more it’s curable. For example, if we catch prostate cancer at an early stage, almost all men will be fully cured. However, if it’s an advanced stage, only 28% of men will become cured,’ Dr Ahmed said.
According to the NHS, one in eight men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. Normally, it is associated with men aged between 75 and 79.
