'I knew that something was wrong, but I wasn't expecting to hear that I had terminal cancer'

A 26-year-old man's Urinary Tract Infection symptoms turned out to be terminal prostate cancer.

- By STEVEN SMITH

Chandler Heatley went to the doctor when he noticed blood in his urine

(LISA HEATLEY/SWNS)

Chandler Heatley went to A&E when he noticed blood in his urine in April and was given antibiotics and drank cranberry juice to treat a UTI.

Within a month he began to get pain in his lower abdomen and found he needed the toilet all the time.

In May he went to A&E because pain on his left side was keeping him up at night and a low-contrast CT scan showed he might have a stone in his bladder.

Chandler was given painkillers and told he might have kidney stones, which would pass naturally, but the scan also revealed nodules on his left lung, and a high-contrast CT scan revealed a tennis-ball-sized growth on his prostate gland, which was likely cancer.