Chris Hoy's Prostate Cancer Awareness

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Chris Hoy says raising cancer awareness has given him new purpose

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Six -time Olympic cycling champion, 48 , disclosed last year that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

He said hearing of other men getting checked off the back of his announcement "helps me make sense of my situation" Sir Chris said a friend in his mid-50s who had no symptoms and "no previous issues at all" would not have got a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test if he had not made his own announcement.

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