Push to increase prostate cancer testing

A prominent Melbourne squash coach has praised his student for recognising an unusual sign of prostate cancer that has prolonged his life. New research suggests prostate cancer cases will double in Australia in two decades, prompting calls for more men to get tested. The 63-year-old father of three had been experiencing heat pain for more than a year but brushed it off as a sports injury. “I had this pain in my right hip, and I just thought oh it’s a typical injury you get from squash and it would just not go away, it just nagged and nagged and was keeping me awake at night and it getting worse,” Malcolm Mc Clarty said. His student and friend of 16 years Niall Tebbutt encouraged him to take action. “I never thought something like this would happen to me,” Mr Mc Clarty said.