‘I found out by sheer luck': Brisbane councillor, 36, diagnosed with cancer
Brisbane councillor Ryan Murphy has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, saying he found out by 'sheer luck' after a doctor added an extra test to standard blood work.
The 36-year-old said the chances of getting that type of cancer at his age were about one in 100,000.
'It's stage II and treatable, but caught just in time,' the councillor for Chandler ward wrote on Facebook on Tuesday morning.
Murphy said the cancer was only discovered because his GP, Dr Phillip Wuth, added a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test to standard blood work during a cholesterol test.
'A normal PSA reading for a man my age is under two, mine was 11,' he said.
'I have no family history, and no symptoms.
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'Phil saved my life.
'My urologist is certain if I had not found this cancer now I would find out the hard way before turning 40.'
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