Alan is proof that testicular cancer doesn’t just affect young men - he found a lump in his left testicle when he was aged 70, just months after having prostate cancer.
He said: “One morning I was in the shower when I felt a lump on my left testicle. It was swollen and tender and I knew instantly: ‘something is wrong. It shouldn’t be like this.’ I didn’t think it would be cancer though, as I was sure testicular cancer was something that happened to young men, not people in their seventies. Plus, I was recovering from an operation I’d had four months prior to remove my prostate, after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
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