A MAN suffering from a common cancer was forced to have his entire penis amputated after it spread to his manhood, in what medics described as an "exceedingly rare" case.

The 66-year-old patient underwent the life-changing operation after experiencing pain and hardening in the skin of his penis.

He'd been suffering from prostate cancer for three years when he began experiencing symptoms.

The prostate is a walnut-shaped gland that sits underneath the bladder and surrounds the urethra, the tube carrying pee out of the body.

In the UK, one in eight men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime.

Those over the age of 50 are more at risk, as well as black men and people with a family history of the disease.

Some prostate cancer grows too slowly to cause any problems or affect how l

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