Cancer test a genuine life-saver

RISHI Sunak got it spot-on this week when he said we blokes are mostly rubbish at getting our health checked out. Especially when it comes to prostate cancer.

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“Too many men are dying of embarrassment,” he writes. “We tend to ignore pains hoping they'll just go away, rather than heading to the doctor's surgery.”

There are exceptions, of course. The late Alan Clark MP wrote in his Diaries: “If you think there's something wrong, run, don't walk, to the doctor.”

Having said that, Clark would one day succumb to something he always had a nagging instinct would claim him- brain cancer.

As I wrote here last month, now that prostate cancer has become the most common “Big C” in Britain, it's time we had a national screening programme similar to the one for women and breast cancer.

But in the absence of that, all men over 50 should present themselves for testing off their own bat.