Construction Worker, 40, Diagnosed with Terminal Prostate Cancer After Minor ‘Aches and Pains’: ‘Why Me?’

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• Grant Learmont, 40, was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer after initially experiencing mild back and hip pain.

• The cancer had spread to his spine, pelvis, ribs and other areas, causing bone disease and requiring aggressive treatment.

• Learmont shares his story to raise awareness that prostate cancer can affect young people and present with mild symptoms

A construction worker was diagnosed with prostate cancer and given only a few years to live after showing very few symptoms.

Grant Learmont, 40, from Dumfries, Scotland, was always an active father of two. He played football, ran half marathons and owned his own construction business. In January 2026, she began experiencing stiffness in her back and hips and began going to the doctor. But the symptoms were dismissed as simple “aches and pains.”

“The doctor thought with me that this could only be due to the muscles in my back, my building and my football,” he said. Southwest News Service. “We both thought he was muscular, it made sense.”

Learmont was sent to a physiotherapist and given exercises to do over the next few weeks. But in early February, the pain shifted from his back and hips to his chest.

“If I was sitting in bed or taking a deep breath, it really hurt, so I called the doctor back,” she recalled.

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After the test, Learmont’s doctor informed him that there were “abnormalities” in his blood and he was sent for a CT scan. Shortly after, he received devastating news.

On Valentine’s Day, Learmont was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. The cancer had also caused bone disease in his spine, pelvis and left hip.

“I was completely confused, I had absolutely no symptoms, going to the toilet was absolutely fine, I didn’t have any other symptoms either,” she said. “The weeks before that there was just a slight soreness, that’s all.”

Further scans revealed that Learmont’s cancer had also spread to his collarbones, ribs and breastbone.

He said the news was “unimaginable” for his wife Kirsten, daughter Tilly, 19, and son Shaw, 17.

“As you can imagine me and Kirsten have been through every emotion imaginable, devastation, shock, anger, why me??? Let’s take this for now and hit it head on!” wrote somewhere GoFundMe page.

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Beginning in mid-April, Learmont will begin “triple therapy” consisting of hormone injections, oral hormones and chemotherapy. Doctors said the treatment could allow him to live another 4 to 10 years. However, his situation is unclear.

“They don’t know; it’s a needle in a haystack,” he told the outlet.

Learmont said he is sharing his story now to raise awareness about prostate cancer and how it can occur in young people.

“For years, this has been seen as a disease that strikes older people in their 60s and 70s. I’m proof that it can happen to young people, too,” he said.

“Especially being in the construction business, a lot of builders and carpenters suffer from constant aches and pains. I want to raise awareness; if you have a constant aches and pains, go and get checked out.”

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