‘Prostate cancer test would have saved me’

“The difference to me would have been very clear,” Mr Collier added, “because I was diagnosed terminal at 60.

“I had a right to the PSA blood test from age 50, but I didn’t know about my right to that PSA test and therefore didn’t know to ask for it.”

On Friday, it was announced that a hugely influential group of experts did not believe a screening programme for all men in the UK was justified.

Instead, they say only men with specific genetic mutations that lead to more aggressive tumours should be eligible – ruling out black men, who have double the risk, and men who have the disease running through their families.