Golf pro Steve Rolley supports Prostate Cancer UK campaign

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Steve Rolley, who through his role with England Golf helped Danny Willett and Justin Rose as youngsters, is backing Prostate Cancer UK’s bid to raise awareness of its online Risk Checker, enabling men to find out their risk of getting prostate cancer and learn what they can do about it.

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00:00Hi, Steve Rolley. I'm here at Worthing Golf Club where I've been associated for about

00:0937 years now. I was head professional. I'm speaking to you today because I had prostate

00:15cancer and I was diagnosed about five years ago. I was so lucky because I had a letter

00:22through the post, just an abstract letter inviting me to take part in a clinical research

00:27trial for prostate cancer. I'd always had PSA-level tests and they were always low.

00:34But I still said yes, I'd take part. The researchers think they found markers in your DNA which

00:41would indicate if you've got prostate cancer. And although my PSA-level checks were really

00:48good, it turned out that I did have cancer. I was so, so lucky. And it was a trial partially

00:56funded by the Royal Marsden and Prostate Cancer UK. So I was treated very quickly.

01:04I had an MRI scan, a multi-parametric MRI scan and then a biopsy and subsequently had

01:10my prostate removed all within a matter of weeks. And luckily for me, because it was

01:16found so early, the cancer was solely located in the prostate and now I'm cancer free.

01:24The message really is that if you get any symptoms, if you pee in the night too often,

01:33if you get any symptoms that may indicate that you have prostate problems, you need

01:40to go to the doctor straight away. If they find you have got cancer, then they can deal

01:46with it. I had mine out, you can have brachiotherapy, you can have radiotherapy. They can treat

01:51prostate cancer very successfully, very quickly if you get up and go to the doctor if you've

01:58got any worries at all. Awareness is growing all the time and thankfully more and more

02:05men are going and getting checked out. One in eight of us is going to get prostate cancer.

02:09For goodness sake, don't avoid the issue. Don't get worried, don't get embarrassed and

02:16just go to the doctor.

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