A young Emirati has urged men to get checked for testicular cancer to avoid the same ordeal he endured.
Engineer Omar Al Ahmadi was only 27 when he woke up to what he described as the most severe pain he had ever felt.
At first, he thought the pain could be managed with painkiller tablets but it was not long before he was forced to take a late-night trip to the accident and emergency department.
It became apparent that he was suffering from testicular cancer so advanced that he would need to undergo an arduous chemotherapy programme. Doctors…