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If only I’d followed my own advice back then. 🤣
Good times had so can’t complain.
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I thought testing for 'everything' generates a fairly high false positive rate and lots of unnecessary and sometimes unpleasant unneeded procedures? Blood tests work well when combined with other symptoms or targeted groups.
Didn't he also retire a decade ago so would probably have stopped having whatever blood tests elite athletes have and yet that's plenty of time for cancer to start?
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This is why an annual full body MOT for humans makes sense. A physical and some bloods.
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A friend does this every year (he works in healthcare, albeit as an accountant). Blood work and full body MRI every year.
The trick is to get everything done the first year and use that as a baseline. Only look at anything very obvious from the first scans/tests and then subsequently years you just look at what has changed from the previous years, cuts out a lot of unnecessary stuff.
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I would expect it would not be cheap. Currently I've three medical issues and luckily we have insurance which has helped with access to doctors for two issues. The third is haemochromatosis which the NHS are addressing. I was interested in getting an MOT done but circumstances have changed that quite quickly.
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The NHS doesn't have a screening programme for prostate cancer. Your GP may recommend a test if you have symptoms. If you don't have symptoms you can have a free test if you're over 50 but you have to ask. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/psa-test/#:~:text=Routine%20PSA%20testing%20is%20not,how%20the%20treatment%20is%20working.
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So Chris Kaba's killer has been acquitted. Going by the snippets of testimony and video on C4 news I don't think the shooting was justified. Officers could have waited. The car was trapped. Officers didn't need to step in front of it. Maybe guilty of manslaughter. Maybe strings were pulled to get a charge of murder because it was impossible to prove.
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For those unfamiliar with the case, here's the sequence of events copied from the Telegraph. I don't love the Telegraph but they've done a decent job here:
"On the evening of Sunday, Sept 5 2022, Chris Kaba, a 24-year-old black man, was driving alone through the streets of south London. As he travelled through the Camberwell area, his black Audi Q8 was spotted by a police firearms officer, who recognised it as a vehicle that had been flagged as suspicious.
According to the police intelligence database, the car, which was not registered to Kaba, had been involved in a firearms incident the previous evening. A witness reported having seen three balaclava-clad men, one armed with a gun, open fire on another vehicle near a primary school in Brixton before the suspects fled the scene in two cars. Nobody was hurt in the incident, but the description of one of the getaway vehicles – a dark-coloured Audi Q8 along with the number plate – was passed to Scotland Yard. While the police had no idea who was behind the wheel at that stage, a firearms incident was declared.
A convoy of unmarked armed response vehicles (ARVs) began tracking the Audi as it continued its route across south London, travelling through Herne Hill, Brockwell Park and Brixton. Meanwhile, a marked BMW ARV containing three officers, including Martyn Blake, remained on standby parked in Kirkstall Gardens, a residential street in Streatham. Firearms officers were preparing to stop the car and apprehend the driver when Kaba unexpectedly turned into Kirkstall Gardens to be confronted by the marked BMW ARV, which had moved into the middle of the road blocking his path.
Kaba quickly reversed but discovered he was boxed in from behind by an unmarked police car, which he collided with. Within seconds, armed police were swarming around the Audi, pointing their guns and telling the driver to surrender. They ordered him out of the car. When he refused they tried to smash the windows. But determined to get away, Kaba floored the accelerator, lurching forward and ploughing into the BMW police car and a Tesla parked in the street. Unable to get through the gap, Kaba slammed the car into reverse – but again collided with a police Volvo, which had moved forward to close the gap.
It was at that point Mr Blake discharged his carbine, firing a single bullet that pierced the windscreen of the Audi and struck Kaba in the head. Kaba was rushed to King’s College Hospital but was pronounced dead just after midnight. No firearm was recovered from the Audi"
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There’s a video montage here, it’s a lot less clear cut in video, he’s driving in a fairly dangerous manner with police all around the vehicle on foot. Split second decision, genuine belief in a fairly dramatic situation, jury seem to have accepted that.
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Anticipate the ramming and come at the car from the side
You’re joking right? A car that’s smashing its way around and you’re calmly just going to “anticipate”?
Enough people on a cycling forum know how vulnerable a pedestrian is when someone in a car is using it as a weapon. It’s not some Hollywood action movie.
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Seeing the video, completely unfamiliar with the case, I’d say he was driving more than just dangerously. Purposely ramming three police vehicles with blue lights, with police on foot immediately around your car… with no other comment on Mr. Kaba’s or Mr. Blake’s actions, I’d say Kaba was driving aggressively.
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Hoy was in such great form in the track commentary today. Hard to believe that he's carrying such a burden. Stage 4 prostate cancer seems so unfair for someone of his age.