Sports presenter Steve Rider has urged other men to get checked after he revealed he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
The 73-year-old, who has presented the BBC’s Grandstand and Sportsnight, will have an operation this weekend.he's been diagnosed with prostate cancer and it's thanks to another TV presenter that he went for a check up
He added that his doctors told him that it was an “opportunity to have significant surgery and cure the whole thing”.“I’m a total convert to getting yourself checked early and getting the diagnosis done early and getting remedial measures in place as soon as possible,” he explained.Rider said he decided to get checked after a friend of his was also diagnosed with prostate cancer following a medical check-up.
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