Former Scots rugby star Kenny Logan has revealed that he has been receiving treatment for cancer after being diagnosed in February.
Kenny appeared on BBC Breakfast today where he announced the news. The 50-year-old is married to TV presenter Gabby Logan, and he said it was her who urged him to go and get checked out.
Kenny said: "I was actually listening to one of the episodes about menopause about women and their hormones falling off a cliff.
"As I was going through this in my head, and I thought 'what about me', 'what is happening to me', and Gabby said that I should go and get checked. I went to get a wellness check and he said that everything was fine with my hormones but your prostate is high, your PSA is high so you should go and get checked.
"I had a biopsy, but this year on February 7 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which was a huge shock." Kenny then had to decide if he wanted to undergo chemotherapy or have surgery to get his prostate removed, and ultimately he decided to have his prostate removed.
He added: "I ended up deciding to take it out. So I'm now three months since the operation, had the prostate out. And I'm probably 95 per cent back to normal, maybe 90 per cent back to normal. It’s hard when you’re told you’ve got cancer – and I’d literally fell over it, I didn’t see it coming, no symptoms whatsoever – I had to go looking for it."
His wife Gabby said that the pair were totally shocked by the news. She said: "I think that was the shocking thing for both of us that the day before he went in for his operation, I'm jumping forwards a bit, he'd done a bike session.
"He had no pain, he had no symptoms. And to go in and have surgery which is a really invasive surgery and it obviously takes a long to recover from you're going to feel a lot worse after it but very, very, very lucky."
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