Dr Amir Khan

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9,955 appearances 22 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

Dr Amir Khan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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No Appointment Necessary · Everything You Need to Know About Your Thyroid · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

So anything that stimulates the prostate uh will cause it to go up. voice-verified

So if you've been sat on a hard surface for a long time, if you've been riding a bike for a long time and sat on that saddle, if you've ejaculated, if you've got a urinary tract infection, all of these things will falsely voice-verified

increase, give you a false positive reading of a high PSA, and that then means you go for these potentially invasive investigations. voice-verified

The other side of the argument is that not all prostate cancers um are are going to kill you. voice-verified

There are some slow-growing ones that you just live alongside and you die from something else. voice-verified

Saying that, there are some very aggressive prostate cancers that do kill men, and one in eight men get prostate cancer as well. voice-verified

The the things that increase your risk are being black uh and also having a family history. voice-verified

So lots of us, including myself, expected the the result to be voice-verified

Not every man needs screening for prostate cancer, but those with a family history or those from a a black Afro-Caribbean background probably do. voice-verified

But that wasn't the result. voice-verified

The result was um not every man needs screening for prostate cancer, but those with this Baraca 2 gene in the family, which increases your risk of lots of cancers, do need screening. voice-verified

The problem is, exactly as was described there, who knows whether they've got that gene in their family right? voice-verified

Yes, it increases your risk of certain breast cancers and womb cancers and and s other cancers. voice-verified

But unless unless you kind of figure that pattern out, you don't know whether to get tested for it up to or not. voice-verified

Uh and then voice-verified

Once you tested for it, then you get your your screening for a process. voice-verified

It's really complex, I think. voice-verified

It's not a straightforward thing. voice-verified

And we can't test for it as GPs. voice-verified

We have to refer you to a geneticist who then tests for it. voice-verified

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