"My husband's aggressive prostate cancer"

Initially we were let down by our doctors. No one wanted to examine him, they just kept saying water infection until I demanded an examination, and the hospital doctor let us let us down by not being on the ball.

If I hadn’t pushed for my husband and written a letter of my concerns to the consultant at that point we may well be in a completely different situation now.

Having said that, luckily my concerns were acknowledged by two amazing specialist nurses Tracy and Cath at North Devon district hospital, who did all they could to speed everything along.

My husband was finally diagnosed with an extremely aggressive prostate cancer, but luckily scans showed it hadn’t migrated to the bones. From this point his treatment was first class, he underwent brachytherapy and radiotherapy to hopefully cure him.

We are now having 3 monthly PSA checks and he continues to be on hormones until 2023. The cancer seems to be drastically reduced, and we are lucky enough to know we can speak to Tracy or Cath at any time.