Young man reveals extraordinary update after having 10cm of penis removed in shocking diagnosis
A young man has shared an extraordinary update after he had 10 centimetres of his manhood removed in a near-death ordeal.
A young man has shared an extraordinary update after he had 10 centimetres of his manhood cut off in a near-death ordeal.
Steven Hamill was just 26-years-old when he was diagnosed with penile cancer, but it wasn’t a smooth journey to finding out about the rare disease.
In a bid to raise awareness, the Brit recounted the road to his diagnosis and the painful symptoms he endured.
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Mr Hamill decided to do what “every guy would probably do and ignore it and hope it goes away itself,” he told popular UK TV show, This Morning.
It became apparent something more sinister was going on when he woke up in a pool of blood after passing out in a supermarket carpark.
“The only way I can describe it is to imagine a banana and you bite the underneath of it, so, it’s like a big crater in it,” he said.
“And that’s what happened to me. So, the cancer was just eating away and that’s what the bleed was.
Mr Hamill was sent in for surgery to be circumcised, but when medical staff were in the operating theatre they discovered the aggressive cancer had been “eating away” at his manhood.
Doctors had to “cut the end off” his penis and remove about 10 centimetres to save Mr Hamill’s life.
Now, seven years after the “terrifying” amputation, 33-year-old Mr Hamill revealed he has a four-year-old son.
“I see life in a different way now,” he told the show’s hosts, Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard.
“I was really lucky that even after I had four inches removed it left me with around four inches. So it’s still fully functional and working.
“I’ve had my child. Life’s just great, just aesthetically a bit strange.”
Penile cancer is rare in Australia, with health data showing only 100 to 166 new cases diagnosed annually.
The disease accounts for a very small share of male cancer cases nationwide and is seen mostly in older men aged over 50, according to The Cancer Council.
