It affects one in ten people with prostates, and the risk of developing prostate cancer is higher if you're aged 50 or older, Black, overweight or have a father or brother who's had it, according to the NHS. Thanks to that test, doctors caught his prostate cancer in time to operate and cure it, so he advised BBC Breakfast viewers to use Prostate Cancer UK's 30-second online risk checker. Joe's levels were more than three times the average for his age, then 50. This blood test checks for levels of prostate specific antigen, which can be raised if there's a problem with your prostate. Joe had been diagnosed with prostate cancer after his friend who had it advised him to get to get a PSA test. READ MORE: 'Generous' dad who was 'always the first to buy a round' dies suddenly It made me take more note, plus the fact I actually lost my uncle through prostate cancer in the Christmas before that." I don't know why that was the thing that stuck with me, but it was. The 61-year-old told the ECHO: "That's what stuck with me because I play five-a-side. When Joe mentioned they play five-a-side football together, Ted's ears pricked up. But in February last year he was watching athlete Joe Appiah talk about how a conversation with a friend and hurdling rival saved his life. Prescot man Ted Sayers would usually be in work when the BBC One show was broadcast, until he retired as a lab technician at Liverpool John Moores University six months before. A man with no symptoms was diagnosed with a "silent killer" thanks to watching BBC Breakfast
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