Barnaby Joyce to undergo surgery after being diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer

Former deputy prime minister told ABC he had not experienced any symptoms, but that a blood test had caught the disease in its early stages

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A day after being re-elected to his seat of New England, the Nationals deputy leader, Barnaby Joyce, announced he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will undergo surgery on Monday.

The former deputy prime minister, 58, told the ABC he had not experienced any symptoms, but that his doctor had recommended he take a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test.

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