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Former TV-am star Nick Owen, 75, announces he is suffering from 'extensive' and 'aggressive' prostate cancer



 Former TV-am big name Nick Owen, 75, proclaims he is struggling from 'extensive' and 'aggressive' prostate most cancers - weeks after co-presenter Anne Diamond published she is fighting breast cancer

Former TV-am famous person Nick Owen has introduced he is struggling from 'extensive' and 'aggressive' prostate cancer.

The information comes simply weeks after his co-presenter Anne Diamond, 68, published she is fighting breast most cancers and has gone through a mastectomy.

Along with their stint on TV-am, the pair had their very own present day affairs morning programme on the BBC in the 1990s, Good Morning With Anne And Nick.

Owen, 75, spoke on Monday about the debilitating have an effect on the situation has had on his existence following his latest absence from BBC One's Midlands Today.

He advised the information programme: 'I went to a specialist, he wasn't too involved due to the fact my figures weren't that high

'But he determined I ought to have a scan, and then the scan stated there is some thing dodgy going on, and then he despatched me for a biopsy, which he did.

'And the consequences of that had been the killer - on April the 13th, a date (which) will invariably be imprinted on my mind.

'He advised us that it used to be extensive, really, and aggressive, and I had prostate most cancers full-on, and some thing wished to be accomplished notably fast.

'And that used to be likely the worst day of my life, or honestly one of them.'

He added: 'It was once a very grim moment... using domestic after that type of information and ringing people, texting people, my cellphone went loopy for hours on end.

'And it used to be a very, very hard time for me, and certainly for my wife Vicki, who was once via my facet all the time thru this, you know.'

Prostate most cancers is the most frequent most cancers in guys in the UK. One in eight guys will get prostate most cancers at some factor in their lives and extra than 52,000 new instances are recognized each and every year.

A BBC spokesman said: 'Nick has been one of the faces of Midlands Today for extra than 25 years. Our viewers and his colleagues have overlooked him dearly in current weeks.

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