The stranger had recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer and he wanted to share what had happened to him and, I suspect, find new strength by talking to a compassionate public figure. “I also want to raise awareness that 10,000 men a year get the news that they have stage 4 prostate cancer. Sadly, you have people like Dermot Murnaghan [the television journalist who died from prostate cancer last month]. Such drive, against all odds, stands in stark contrast to the laxity that epitomises the failure of successive governments to take coherent action against prostate cancer. “From what I’ve been told by people at the forefront of new treatments, this is the most exciting time for prostate cancer drug development in the last 25 years.