BBC presenter Nick Owen receives MBE from Princess Anne

He said he had “no symptoms at all” at the time of his diagnosis, but now says his prognosis is “looking very good”.

Owen discussed his experiences on BBC Midlands Today and BBC Breakfast and said the response had been “absolutely phenomenal”.

“Literally thousands of people wrote and got in touch, whether it was males or wives or mothers, saying, ‘You’ve finally persuaded my husband, brother, son to do something about it’, and the response was staggering,” he said.

“Only last week, I met someone, it was very humbling, they said I saved his life because he went and had a PSA [Prostate Specific Antigen test] because of what I said on television and turned out he’d got it and he’s had an operation.”