'It's a constant rollercoaster of emotion': Kent man opens up on battle with prostate cancer
Dean Smith, from Ashford, spent the last year being treated for cancer
A man from Kent, who had prostate cancer, has told us it is a constant rollercoaster of emotions.
Dean Smith, from Ashford, spent the last year being treated for his cancer and just a few months ago it became 'undetectable'.
It's after analysis of NHS data by charity Prostate Cancer UK found prostate cancer to be the most common type in the UK - with over 55,033 men being diagnosed with it in 2023, compared to 47,526 breast cancer cases.
The year before, 50,751 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in England compared to 48,531 breast cancer diagnoses in the same year.
Dean explained what going through the treatment was like, he said: "It was draining at the time because I had 33 treatments which happened daily and there were times that I just wanted to for it to be over because there was nothing else I could do with my life everyday.
"And I'm still on that journey as I've still got to have hormone therapy and once I finish that we will truly know whether I have been successful but I can ask to be in a better position than I am at the moment and it's a good feeling when the consultant turns round and tells you it's undetectable.
"Yet you still go through this whole rollercoaster of worrying about if it's gone high or if it's come back and I always be at risk so I will have to have continual check ups."