As the nation went into lockdown in 2020, TV comedian Richard Herring thought: “This would be a really bad time to get cancer.” Then he did.
The 55-year-old stand-up remembers sitting down on his bed one day and noticing his right testicle felt different. By the autumn it definitely looked to be getting larger, heavier and harder.
“It was concerning me, it felt a bit different,” he recalls. “It seemed to be getting a bit bigger.”