Restaurant critic Giles Coren reveals prostate cancer diagnosis

Restaurant professional and writer Giles Coren has announced his diagnosis with prostate cancer.

Writing successful his file for The Times, the 55-year-old said urology nurses had taken a biopsy earlier informing him they had recovered “some cancer” but that “no attraction would beryllium indispensable for the moment”.

“In the precise week that it was announced connected the beforehand leafage of The Times that prostate crab is present the commonest crab successful England … I person been diagnosed with it!” helium wrote.

Earlier successful the week foundation Prostate Cancer UK said diagnoses of the illness had overtaken bosom crab successful 2022 and 2023, making it England’s astir communal cancer.

TV prima and writer Coren, who is the member of Only Connect presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell, said his “delightful travel started a mates of years ago”.

“I had to demand, virtually demand, a prostate circumstantial antigen (PSA) trial on with my yearly cholesterin check, due to the fact that not lone is it not mandatory connected the NHS but your GP is not adjacent allowed to suggest it unless you person symptoms,” helium claimed.

The NHS website says a PSA trial checks the level of prostate circumstantial antigen successful your blood, with precocious levels indicating a imaginable prostate condition.

Coren said the trial “came backmost a spot high” and revealed helium had lone asked for it due to the fact that of the enactment done by celebrities including Stephen Fry, the precocious Bill Turnbull – and much precocious Sir Chris Hoy, who revealed his prostate crab was terminal successful 2024.

Prostate Cancer UK says “normal” PSA levels are usually little than 3ng/ml but adds that this varies, with levels depending connected factors specified arsenic property and medicine use.

After his trial presented a people of 4 Coren was sent for an MRI scan, which helium said “came backmost ‘meh’, not decidedly crab but not decidedly not cancer”.

They past offered him a biopsy which helium declined until his PSA level went up to seven.

After the process 1 of the urology nurses phoned him to contiguous the results and said they had recovered crab – “but little than a millimetre successful conscionable 3 of the 21 samples”.

According to Coren they said “that nary attraction would beryllium indispensable for the moment. Just monitoring”.

Coren has presented connected TV shows including BBC Two programme Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond The Lobby.

He besides presented BBC Radio 4’s Front Row for 1 series.

His debut novel, Winkler, won the Bad Sex In Fiction Award successful 2005.