A dad-of-two was diagnosed with a 'silent killer' after getting the sudden urge to urinate every 45 minutes.
Jim McDonald, 73, initially dismissed the symptom as age-related when it started in November last year, leaving him feeling "embarrassed" while at restaurants with friends. By December, he "knew something was wrong" because he was getting up for the toilet four or five times a night. He said: "If I needed to go, I needed to go, no messing around. It was quite frequent."
At his wife's suggestion, Jim went to a doctor who sent him for scans and biopsies. Just two months after symptoms first appeared, Jim was told he had prostate cancer and it had spread to his pelvic bone, "which is obviously not good news".
