Feargal Sharkey reveals prostate cancer diagnosis and urges men to get checked | Men’s health
Feargal Sharkey urged men to test for prostate cancer after he revealed that his illness was diagnosed after a GP visit to sore throat.
Environmental activist and former chief tones said that the health problem was “solved” a year ago.
Talk to the Daily Express newspaperHe said: “About a year and a half ago, I went randomly to see my doctor with sore throat.
So my doctor, being the beautiful, wonderful, embarrassing man, who went: “Feargal, by the way, you are 65 now, I will run the full battery of the tests. “
“Two days later, it turns out, it has started a journey that led to [diagnosis] From prostate cancer. Fortunately, all this has now been resolved a year ago. But here, without that random visit to my local doctor, I would not know that at that stage I was carrying prostate cancer, and if not seen, it may be a completely different end and completely different results in my life.
“The reason I am very happy to talk about it is that if there is one man there over the age of 45, go and see your doctor. Go and achieve a blood test.”
Earlier this year, prostate cancer has become the most common type of cancer in England, bypassing breast cancer for two consecutive years. In 2023 there were 55,033 diagnosis of prostate cancer.
On Sunday, the former US President Joe Biden was diagnosed with a “aggressive form” of prostate cancer This has spread to his bones.
Sharkey urged men to have a blood test, which can be easily treated in its early stages. “Now, for one of eight of you, you will be placed on the same journey that you went through, and it is completely amazing to think that in this country now, one in every eight men of prostate cancer suffer.” “Most of them do not know that. So go and test the blood, and if you are lucky, you will walk.”
He also expressed his “admiration” for the Olympic Gold medal six times Chris Hoy, who was revealed in October that he had “two years to four years” left to live After diagnosing cancer in the fourth stage, which spread from the prostate.
“I have incredible admiration for Chris Hoy during the past two months. If you end up where Chris is, you are now looking for a completely different result and not that you expected in your life, my friend. So, to test the blood – go to get it now.”
