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Carla Feric

Tommy Cannon on prostate cancer diagnosis: I’m still here and doing OK

Tommy Cannon has talked about finding out he had prostate cancer (Anna Gowthorpe/PA) - (PA Archive)

Comedian Tommy Cannon has said he was “frightened to death” when he received a prostate cancer diagnosis in his 50s but added that he is “still here, still kicking and doing OK”.

The 87-year-old is best known as being one half of duo Cannon and Ball alongside the late Bobby Ball, and the pair became household names through their eponymous ITV comedy variety show, which aired from 1979 to 1988.

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