Dermot Murnaghan 'fell through the cracks' with cancer diagnosis

Former Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan has said helium "fell done the gaps" with his prostate crab diagnosis, calling it a "massive wake-up call".

He revealed past period he has stage-four cancer, meaning it has dispersed to different areas of the body. However, helium said helium was responding positively to treatment.

Speaking astatine an lawsuit for Prostate Cancer UK, Murnaghan urged men to get tested - and to importune connected 1 if they're successful a high-risk group.

"For years I thought 'that volition bash me'. I'm getting tested fundamentally erstwhile a twelvemonth oregon each mates of years," helium said.

"It ne'er occurred to maine that they weren't investigating for PSA (prostate-specific antigen) and I ne'er went to my GP due to the fact that I was getting different tests privately done the accumulation company.

"So that's however I fell done the gaps and that's however I had a monolithic wake-up telephone and privation to stock the message."

A PSA trial is simply a humor trial that tin bespeak if there's a imaginable occupation with the prostate but there's presently nary nationalist screening programme.

The NHS says men implicit 50 tin inquire their GP for one, and Murnaghan, who's 67, said immoderate radical beneath that property should besides propulsion for one.

"You tin get to the signifier I person with nary symptoms," helium said.

"Get the test, importune connected the test. You tin importune connected the trial if you are successful a high-risk radical and nether 50. If you are not, I'd inactive get the trial astatine 50."

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Murnaghan - who worked astatine Sky News for 16 years - added: "Go to your GP and they accidental you don't request it, but accidental 'but I privation it'. It is your close to person it.

"Just support doing that each twelvemonth oregon mates of years. Once you've got that marker wherever your PSA is, support monitoring it.

"The earlier you find prostate cancer the easier it is to treat, truthful cheque your hazard successful conscionable 30 seconds with Prostate Cancer UK's online hazard checker to spot if you are astatine hazard and what you tin take to bash astir it."

Those astatine higher-risk of prostate crab see men implicit 50, achromatic men and radical with a household past of the disease.

Murnaghan is presently preparing for a foundation motorcycle thrust successful September, the Tour de 4, organised by Sir Chris Hoy - who revealed his ain diagnosis past year.