I've got prostate cancer and can answer all the questions you're too embarrassed to ask: From extreme pain to needle guns in undignified areas and penis pumps - Dead Ringers creator JON HOLMES explains all By Caroline Scott Published: 21:08 EDT, 17 June 2024 | Updated: 21:15 EDT, 17 June 2024 e-mail View comments Finding anything funny about a transperineal prostate biopsy is not easy — where, under local anaesthetic, a series of needles are punched through the skin and muscle between the rectum and the base of the penis to reach the walnut-sized prostate gland below the bladder. But the writer, comedian and broadcaster Jon Holmes is absolutely certain humour is the way to get through experiences such as this and get more men talking about cancer . As he reveals for the first time today, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year, despite experiencing 'zero symptoms'.
Married with two daughters aged 14 and 12, Jon, 55, is the Bafta-award winning co-creator of the Radio 4 sketch show Dead Ringers. He won a Gold Aria this year for his Radio 4 programme Generation Shame about his experience of being adopted, and is the creator of The Skewer for Radio 4 and BBC TV, a multi-award-winning satirical take on the week's news. Jon discovered he had prostate cancer last February after PSA blood tests revealed he had a high level of prostate specific antigens He is hardwired, he says, to find humour in the darkest of places.
And a new podcast, Jon Holmes Says The C-Word, is exactl.
