Finding a new way to be intimate after prostate surgery   

A prostatectomy can affect your sexual performance but it doesn't mean you've lost all possibility of sexual pleasure, a cancer survivor tells Helen O'Callaghan  

POST TREATMENT: Billy Smith, with his new puppy Jacksie, was taken aback by the long-term impact of his surgery. Picture: Garry O’Neill

Billy Smith wasn’t expecting any shock results when he visited his GP to get a clean bill of health for insurance purposes.

But looking back, the now-retired lorry driver and agricultural contractor can recall one issue. “I was finding it harder to pee. That had been building up for two years but I wasn’t too aware of it as a problem.”