Sir Cliff Richard has announced on Good Morning Britain that he has prostate cancer and is receiving treatment.
The singer, 85, revealed in an interview with Dermot Murnaghan that for the past year he has been treated for prostate cancer.
He revealed that he was speaking out now in order to back national screening tests for men and to raise awareness of the importance of early diagnosis.
Opening up about his cancer diagnosis, Sir Cliff said: ‘I was about to embark on a tour which in fact ended this time at the Royal Albert Hall.
‘But I was going to Australia and to New Zealand and the promoter said, “Well we need for your insurance, you need to be checked up for something.”
‘They found that I had prostate cancer. But the good fortune was that it was not very old and the other thing is that it has not metastasised. Nothing had moved into bones or anything like that.’
He revealed that he was currently cancer free, but was unsure if it would return.
‘The cancer’s gone at the moment. I don’t know whether it’s going to come back.
‘We can’t tell those sort of things but we need to, absolutely, I’m convinced, get there, get tested, get checked.’
Discussing how important it is for men to get tested early Sir Cliff added: ‘I think we as men have got to start saying it, we’ve got to be seen as human beings who may die of this thing.’
