{"id":80194,"date":"2025-10-05T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=80194"},"modified":"2025-10-05T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:29:07","slug":"father-of-two-54-thanks-at-home-test-for-discovering-he-had-aggressive-prostate-cancer-but-gp-told-him-to-watch-and-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/05\/father-of-two-54-thanks-at-home-test-for-discovering-he-had-aggressive-prostate-cancer-but-gp-told-him-to-watch-and-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Father-of-two, 54, thanks at home test for discovering he had &#8216;aggressive&#8217; prostate cancer &#8211; but GP told him to &#8216;watch and wait&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/10\/03\/11\/102669875-15158553-image-m-24_1759485871348.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Yeo, from Devon, was shocked when an at home prostate specific antigen (PSA) test bought by his wife in early 2023, showed he 'needed to take further action'. Pictured, Mr Yeo with wife Donna and\u00a0two children, Ciaran, 23, and Louis, 18\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A father-of-two who discovered he had prostate\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-7e29d560-a03f-11f0-a31f-8933aaed55da\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/cancer\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">cancer<\/a><\/span> after using an at home test, has claimed his GP told him to &#8216;watch and wait&#8217; despite it growing aggressively. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-15158553\/Father-home-test-aggressive-prostate-cancer-GP.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A father-of-two who discovered he had prostate\u00a0cancer after using an at home test, has claimed his GP told him to &#8216;watch and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Prostate-PSA-test.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80196,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80194\/revisions\/80196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}