He's issued a stark warning to men everywhere
A dad-of-two who lost half his penis after his cancer was missed three times has been given a year to live.
READ MORE: Public told to wear face masks and stay at home when ill as NHS battles deadly wave of winter illnesses "The best way I can describe it like a ring of tissue or hard skin within the foreskin. When I'd retract the foreskin, I would have to pull it over the head of the penis. Four weeks later when it hadn’t cleared up, he went back to the same doctor who still believed it to be a wart. Gavin attended his medical centre again but was seen by a different GP, who thought it might be thrush, so Gavin was given cream, WalesOnline reports.
"I've nicknamed it the 'Frankenweiner'. When I woke up in hospital I was so scared at how much of my penis looked to have been removed as it had a dressing on it and a catheter fitted you couldn’t make out the full extent until all of that was removed." Half of penis cancers are diagnosed late and once the cancer spreads, the chances of saving the organ become much lower. Tragically, a fifth of patients die of the disease.
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