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Twenty years ago, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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It was tough.

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My case is quite common.

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I had a very high PSA of 26 and a positive rectal ultrasonography.

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The risk of cancer was very clear.

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During the surgery, they couldn't confirm this, so it took another five years of biopsy.

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I've had several biopsies over the last 20 years which have proved that indeed I have

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cancer but that I don't need treatment.

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You know it takes 15 years to die from prostate cancer.

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After 15 years, I was very careful and my colleagues convinced me to have radiotherapy.

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Personally, I still think it was the wrong decision.

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I had to endure the side effects of radiotherapy.

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Of course, the doctor feels he has to heal you and he believes that all cancers need

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to be destroyed.

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Another thing we know is that there's an over-diagnosis level of about 30%, so we find

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cancers that don't need treatment but they still get over-treatment in 30% of cases.

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That's a major issue, over-diagnosis and over-treatment.

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A diagnosis of cancer is never nice.

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For most people, it means they're going to die.

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That's the big problem, the lack of knowledge.

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What you imagine is always worse than the reality.

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The patient has these ideas about what's going to happen to him.

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But when he's well-informed, he knows he can live a normal life.

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Here in the oncological center, there are eight patient groups.

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We want to help those people on every level by improving their knowledge, through good

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communication and by supporting them with their problems.

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All I know is that I, like the other three million men in Europe, will probably not die

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of prostate cancer, but that I'll feel the effects of it when I'm older.

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At a certain stage, you say, it's like my age, my rheumatism, my hair loss, my feet.

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You continue your life, but you don't want to spend it in the urologist's or the doctor's office.

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Our only wish is, first treat the person, then fight the cancer.