Sir Chris Hoy is terminally ill

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Chris Hoy has revealed he has stage 4 prostate cancer and it’s terminal.

Massive shock, he’s still relatively young and it’s hard to imagine someone so fit dying. Watching him during the Olympics, you’d never think he would be able to do the job so professionally with that weight on his mind. I hope his remaining time is as pain free and happy as possible

www.bbc.co.uk

Cyclist Chris Hoy announces that his cancer is terminal

The 48-year-old Scot says doctors have told him he has between two and four years to live.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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Goes to show nobody is immune, irrespective of fitness. But definitely a shock due to his fitness etc.

Thoughts are with him and his family, I'm sure he'll make the most of it due to his mentality.
 
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Bloody hell. :o

He's even been on the BBC this weekend with the world track cycling championships being on in Denmark and he's been live in the velodrome with Jill Douglas.
 
robfosters said:
Chris Hoy has revealed he has stage 4 prostate cancer and it’s terminal.

Massive shock, he’s still relatively young and it’s hard to imagine someone so fit dying. Watching him during the Olympics, you’d never think he would be able to do the job so professionally with that weight on his mind. I hope his remaining time is as pain free and happy as possible

www.bbc.co.uk

Cyclist Chris Hoy announces that his cancer is terminal

The 48-year-old Scot says doctors have told him he has between two and four years to live.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Shocking indeed. A friend of mine died from cancer earlier this year. Although a bit older than Chris Hoy (early sixties) he was also a keen cyclist and always appeared to be very fit. Until he shared the news that tests triggered by a recent bout of ill health showed that unbelievably he only had maybe a few months left to live.
 
My dad had prostate cancer he was one of lucky ones, but he did have symptoms needed to go to the toilet more frequently at night. In the end they knew he had cancer after the tests but it was left to grow before he could have treatment. Fortunately they caught it at the earliest possible time so he was very lucky.

Maybe Chris didn't have any symptoms all rather sad though. Apparently his wife has aggressive MS aswell so sad for the kids :(
 
Dreadful news. The NHS really need to offer routine yearly PSA tests for middle aged men and older.

My Dad has been living with stage 4 prostate cancer for 5 years, my uncle also got it and received radiotherapy treatment a couple of years ago. I plan to be more proactive.
 
from personal experience 2-4 years is more thana long time in terms of developments in cancer treatments

i have stage four lung cancer and the first thing everyone in the hospital told me is that 2024 is already a different world to 2023 and a whole different universe to 2020

the doctors are throwing out the textbooks they learned by heart only a year or two ago

lets hope they come up with something
 
My mate is 55 and diagnosed last year. Stage 4 as well, symptoms missed by NHS, because I think, he was not able to advocate for himself due to his heritage and education.

By the time it was obvious he was unwell he could barely walk due to tumors pressing on his spinal cord.

That said they immediately sent him for radiotherapy and gave him the cornucopia of drugs required for management and he's ok, although can't walk without a walker now and is about to be medically retired from his work and rely entirely on the state.

His doc said the median survival rate for his treatment is about 5 years. Of course you could fall either side of the bell curve, but so far he's generally fine.
 
mrgubby said:
I'm currently waiting for my 6 months test results after radiotherapy/ bracytherapy for prostate cancer. I had no symptoms, only had a PSA test because a friend ( who had problems) nagged me into getting it done.

He quite possibly saved my life
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Glad you got the treatment you needed early :)

How old are you
 
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