Feargal Sharkey finds prostate most cancers prognosis and urges males to get checked

Feargal Sharkey has suggested males to get examined for prostate most cancers after revealing he was once identified with the illness after a GP talk over with for a sore throat.

The environmental campaigner and previous lead singer of the Undertones stated the well being factor was once “resolved” a yr in the past.

Speaking to the Daily Express, he stated: “About a year and a half ago, I randomly went to see my GP with a sore throat.

“So my doctor, being the beautiful, wonderful, awkward, cantankerous old man that is went: ‘Oh Feargal, by the way, you’re 65 now, I’m going to run the full battery of tests.’

“Two days later, it turns out, I began a journey which led to the [diagnosis] of prostate cancer. Thankfully, that’s all now been resolved a year ago. But here we are, had it not been for that random visit to my local GP, I would never have known that I was at that point carrying prostate cancer, and if it had not been seen to, it could have been a very different ending and a very different outcome to my life.

“The reason I’m very happy to talk about it is because if there’s one man out there over the age of 45 go and see your GP. Go and get the blood test done.”

Earlier this yr, prostate most cancers turned into probably the most usually identified form of most cancers in England, surpassing breast most cancers for 2 consecutive years. In 2023 there have been 55,033 prostate most cancers diagnoses.

On Sunday, former US president Joe Biden was once identified with an “aggressive form” of prostate most cancers that has unfold to his bones.

Sharkey suggested males to get a blood take a look at for the illness, which can also be handled simply in its early levels. “Now, for one in eight of you, you will be put in the same journey I’ve had and it’s quite astonishing to think that in this country right now, one in eight men have prostate cancer,” he stated. “Most of them don’t even know it. So go and have the blood test and if you’re lucky, you’ll walk away.”

He additionally expressed his “admiration” for the six-time Olympic gold medallist Chris Hoy, who disclosed in October he has “two to four years” left to are living after being identified with level 4 most cancers which had metastasised from his prostate.

“I have such unbelievable admiration for Chris Hoy over the last couple of months. If you end up where Chris is, well you’re now looking for a very different outcome and not the one you were expecting for your life, my friend. So, for a blood test – go get it done right now.”