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Health
Rachael Ward

World-first treatment boosts prostate cancer survival

Prostate cancer patients with a poor prognosis have benefited from a groundbreaking treatment trial. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Firefighter Patrick Fitzell was the picture of health until the day he started having trouble going to the bathroom.

His wife convinced him to go for a "man check" which eventually led to a prostate cancer diagnosis, a move from New Zealand to Australia and a place in a world-first medical trial.

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