henry marsh, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.eceived a cancer diagnosis last year — so i think i have to begin by asking, how are you? well, i'm pretty well, all things considered. and as a doctor, of course, i know how bad things can be. i was diagnosed a year ago now with what's called advanced prostate cancer — not necessarily terminal, but it's spread beyond the prostate. and my psa, which is a marker of the severity of a disease, and the probability of recurrence and ultimate death was very high — 130. only 5% of men have a psa as high as that. so, obviously, this was deeply upsetting and shocking at the time. and i've been having to come to terms with it since then. it's quite a long and complicated story. as a doctor, of course, i spend all my life living in a world of death and suffering. but, right from the start of your career as a doctor, you learn detachment. you have to be. you try to find a balance between compassion and detachment. but when it comes to you, obviously, it feels utterly different. and the more i thou