Overview
- The six-time Olympic champion says he is doing well, focusing on the present and spending time with his family despite a terminal diagnosis.
- He argues the UK should not rely on high‑profile figures for awareness and urges routine risk information for men from around age 45.
- The government’s National Screening Committee is expected to meet this week to consider whether to approve the NHS’s first prostate cancer screening programme.
- Media coverage reports a 700% rise in enquiries from men contacting GPs for tests since he revealed his cancer was terminal.
- Hoy’s cancer was discovered after shoulder pain in 2023; it has spread to his bones, and doctors gave him a prognosis of two to four years.