Steve is 57 years old. He has worked in the IT industry as a computer programmer, and is semi-retired, due to ill-health. He lived in Sydney for many years and moved to Melbourne in 2017. In 2012 when he was 50, his optometrist suggested he see his GP and arrange a blood sugar test. Until he returned for the result, [...]
Wally is 74 years old. He retired five years ago from work in the demolition industry; he had been a plant operator and supervisor. When he was 56 Wally had a quadruple heart bypass operation, and following this he was required to have regular blood testing – this testing included PSA. By the age of 66 Wally’s doctor informed him [...]
Ken is 77 years old. He is a boilermaker by trade, has been an engineering workshop foreman and has owned his own engineering business. He spent 14 years doing fly in-fly out work in mines throughout Australia and New Zealand before retiring two years ago. Ken had been having regular PSA and DRE checks. In January 2016 his doctor detected [...]
Colin is 68 years old and retired from work three years ago. After leaving home in Gosford NSW at the age of 22, Colin headed to Western Australia where a friend had suggested he seek out work in the rock lobster industry. Colin took that advice and gained both fishing experience and maritime qualifications leading to owning his own boat, [...]
Roger is 75 years old. He retired from careers in engineering and, more recently, banking when he was 67. Since he was 45, Roger has been having annual blood testing checks, including PSA. At age 69 Roger’s GP noticed that his PSA had doubled in the last twelve months, and he was referred to a urologist. Roger had experienced no [...]
Jim is 82 years old, and retired. He began his working life as a fitter and turner, “but I hated that,” and turned to the carpentry/building trade. He came to Geelong when he was 20 to run a milk bar and later a licensed grocery store. A move to Ballarat to run a small business also saw him meet his [...]
Geoff is 71 years old. He was born in Wedderburn, and the family moved to Geelong when he was seven years old. Originally trained as an electrician, Geoff later re-trained and went into the building industry. He had his own business as a builder for several years before moving into window furnishing, a field he remained in until retiring at [...]
Garry is 65 years old. He spent around thirty years working for the Australian Government in the field of trade and industry economics. For twenty-five of those years Garry lived in Canberra, augmented by periods residing in Melbourne and London. Garry retired from the public service in 2006, and has since started his own consulting practice as a business and [...]
Graham was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2006 at age 59. He visited his doctor for a general check-up, but also reported increased frequency of the need to urinate. “It had been two and a half years since my previous DRE, when the gland felt ‘nice and smooth’ - that’s what she said”! A blood test showed Graham had [...]
John is 74 years old. In 2000 he lived in Kentucky, USA completing a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. John had broken his toe; it had gone black and was not healing; he visited a doctor. That doctor ordered a range of blood tests, including John’s PSA. With a PSA of 7 he was referred to see a urologist. John hadn’t previously [...]