ukip leader nigel farage said an indian nhs doctor almost killed him by failing to diagnose his cancer  nigel farage has launched an astonishing attack on the national health service accusing doctors of 'incompetence and negligence' over their failure to diagnose his cancer the controversial politician developed cancer in his 20s and said an indian doctor tried to convince him he had an infection even though his left testicle had swollen to the size of a rock hard lemon the ukip leader claimed he was 'fobbed off by one nhs doctor to the next', and, without private health insurance, he would 'probably be dead' writing in his memoir, the purple revolution, which is being serialised in the telegraph, farage wrote: 'several doctors examined me   registrars, locums, all that lot   and they came to the conclusion that i had a twisted testicle i would need an immediate operation, they said i was taken by ambulance to hospital in farnborough, hampshire, where i was re examined by another four doctors it was pretty painful 'an indian doctor told me that the bromley doctors had got it all wrong: i had an infection i was to go home and take a heavy dose of antibiotics i did not need an operation after all a few weeks went by and the pain was just as bad all the time, my left testicle was getting markedly larger' mr farage said that six weeks later he was having difficulty walking and his 'left testicle was as large as a lemon and rock hard' but despite being in a 'terrible state' a consultant directed him to ''keep taking the antibiotics' and sent him away eventually mr farage said he sought an opinion from a private consultant who diagnosed cancer scroll down for video  after being told he was covered by company health insurance he went for private treatment and was swiftly informed he had a tumour and would need to have a testicle removed mr farage told how he was 'terrified' when doctors told him he may have secondary tumours in his stomach and lungs more than 30 years on, recounting the period 'makes  me upset', he added on the day of the 2010 general election, mr farage said a plane crash during a publicity stunt and an earlier car crash has left him with the body of a 70 year oldd mr farage, pictured, revealed that one of his testicles had swollen up to the size of  large rock hard lemon  mr farage, pictured after a plane crash on election day in 2010 admitted the nhs was good in emergencies  after the air accident mr farage was told that he could be  signed off as partially  disabled but having a blue badge would be ' conceding  defeat' ' i remember thinking, 'so this is it, this is how it ends',' he said of the air crash 'when people say that their life flashed before them when they thought they were about to die, it is rubbish 'all i could think of was how much there was i still wanted to do and the impact my death would have on others   my girls were still so little and the boys were only just finding their way in the world' he added: ' having nearly died three times has made me a much bigger risk taker when you think your life is about to be taken away and you are given it back, you just want to get on and do things 'there's no time to waste: children to bring up, elections to win, pheasants to pluck, wine to drink' the ukip leader accused other political parties of being afraid of criticising the nhs  he has also taken the opportunity in his memoir to attack the other major westminster political parties over their fear of criticising the nhs he said that he is 'better qualified to criticise and defend our health care system than most politicians' mr farage praised the nhs for being 'astonishingly good' at emergency critical care but claims the nhs will 'probably let you down' over screening and a fast diagnosis he said the system is 'so over stretched that if you can afford private health care, you should take it' and warned that the nhs ' is so battered and poorly run that unless you are really lucky, you will fall through the cracks' 'there are huge problems with the nhs, deep structural ones, but, as i have said, i know more than most what that means on a personal level,' he wrote 'when i had cancer, the incompetence and negligence of the nhs almost killed me, but it has also saved my life i am certainly not taking any flak from gutless politicians who claim that i am no fan or supporter of the nhs'
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nigel farage has revealed he had testicular cancer at the age of 21 . he lost his left testicle after it swelled up to the size of a lemon . he blamed an indian nhs doctor for failing to diagnose his cancer . the ukip leader has written about his trauma in his new memoir 