A man says he was left feeling like a ‘freak’ after a rare penile cancer forced him to have his manhood amputated two days before Christmas.
HOW IT STARTED
Shaun Evans, 55, from Wolverhampton said he initially dismissed what felt like a ‘bad bruise’ on the organ, but became far more concerned when he noticed blood while showering and what looked like a cold sore at the base of his penis.
He told his doctor, who was treating him following a heart attack earlier that year, and he was referred to a specialist.
WHAT DOCTORS THINK
Although Mr Evans’s doctor suspected it was penile cancer, medics needed to undertake a biopsy to be sure and to give him his diagnosis.
But the blood thinning medications he needed following his heart attack meant this had to be delayed by months and, while waiting, Mr Evans’ symptoms left him in so much agony that he couldn’t even walk.
THE HORRIFYING DIAGNOSIS
Finally receiving his diagnosis months after he first experienced symptoms he was given the devastating news that not only did he have penile cancer, but the best course of action was to have his manhood amputated.
Mr Evans went under the knife for the life-changing op just two days before Christmas in 2022.
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Bravely speaking now after learning to live without a penis, and hoping to raise awareness of the disease, Mr Evans said he has come to terms with the amputation and is happy to be up walking and without pain.
While there is a possibility he can have a penis reconstruction he’ll have to wait as medics require patients be cancer-free for five years before approving the surgery.
Mr Evans, who previously worked as police support, said that his post-amputation period ‘was the loneliest I’d felt in my life’.
‘It was just numbness. It can seriously effect masculinity,’ he said.
