Whitley Bay's Craig Carr only asked for a prostate cancer check on a whim having seen newscaster Bill Turnbull talk about the illness - but doing so could well have saved his life.
Craig, now 52, saw his cancer caught early - and is now getting on with his life. But he's spoken out to encourage other men in our region to get themselves checked. This comes as the charity Prostate Cancer UK reveal figures which show a "North-South divide" in outcomes - with men in the North much less likely to discover prostate cancer when it's in its earliest, and least lethal, stages.
Figures from the charity's National Prostate Cancer Audit show more than 20% of men in the North East and Yorkshire are diagnosed with cancer that has spread. That's compared to just 12.5% in London - where more patients are diagnosed when the disease is at an earlier and more treatable stage.
