Simon Jordan reveals cancer diagnosis live on radiotalkSPORT
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00:00 I've been in the wars a little bit and I think it might be appropriate to address that, not
00:03 because everyone's holding their breath as to the reasons why I haven't been in, but
00:07 I also think there's a moderately important message. I'm recovering from cancer. I've
00:11 had cancer and I have had some quite significant surgery. I've had prostate cancer and I had
00:21 the surgery two weeks ago. It was quite substantial surgery and it's been quite debilitating,
00:26 but as you can see, I'm able to come in today. I'm going to be recovering from it for a period
00:30 of time, so I'm going to take my time to get back into the fluster of things, whether it's
00:34 business or it's media. But the reasons why I bring it up is because I think it's a very
00:39 important subject, not because I want to have a kumbaya moment and sit there while everyone
00:42 holds their hands and either feels sorry for me or thinks it's a commendable thing that
00:46 I'm doing by talking about it, but because there is a real issue. If someone hadn't spoken
00:51 to me about being tested, I had no symptoms of prostate cancer and had no reason to believe
00:56 that I had any particular challenges, but someone very close to me did have challenges.
01:01 And so I went off and had a very simple blood test, which men of a certain age, and I don't
01:05 mean in their fifties or in their sixties, I mean men of an age from 30 upwards, need
01:10 to be looking at a simple blood test called a PSA test. And from that, it produced results
01:15 that drove me in a direction from about April, May into the situation of having some quite
01:21 significant surgery. And so now I'm on the other side of that, I'm recovering from it.
01:27 Have you got it all clear? I have all the margins clear in terms of the surgery without
01:32 going into too much detail. And the most delightful experience was walking around with the catheter,
01:36 which I can assure you I didn't much enjoy, either having it put in or certainly having
01:39 it taken out. I can imagine. But if I hadn't have had this surgery, I wouldn't be here.