Jeremy Clarkson issued an emotional statement just days after it was shared that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. In emotional scenes on Clarkson’s Farm, Clarkson, 66, told his farm manager, Kaleb Cooper, and his land agent, Charlie Ireland: “I’ve got cancer.” He added: “I had a medical, remember, back in May? I disappeared off the other week, and I had a biopsy, and it is cancer, and it’s aggressive,” but added it had been caught at a “really early stage”. He had had an operation to remove 10% of his prostate, where the cancer was.
Since the scenes, Clarkson shared a video on his Instagram page, captioning it: “Thank you so much for all the kind messages I’ve had, but now, an announcement.” In the clip, he said: “Hello, everyone. Now, the more observant among you will have noticed that I’m not dead. And I’m not just not dead. I’m perfectly fine. My eyebrows, in particular, are looking very lustrous. And the reason why I’m fine is that the doctors caught the prostate cancer early.
“And they caught it early because I got tested. Now, I know a lot of you will say, oh, I don’t want to be tested because it means someone will have to put their finger in me. But it’s just a blood test these days.
“And if you go to your doctor and he says, ‘well, I’m not going to test you because you don’t have any symptoms, you need to be in a high-risk category’… Just lie. Just lie.
“Say you have got symptoms. Say that you have to get up 32 times in the night for a wee and that there’s some dribbling. Because look, 10,000, 12,000 people, men, to be honest, men, die every year in the UK from prostate cancer. Don’t be one of them. Get tested.”
Charity Prostate Cancer UK thanked Clarkson for raising awareness, saying in a statement: “Thankfully he found the disease at an early stage, but sadly this is still not the experience of any men across the UK.
“Over 10,000 dads, brothers, sons and friends are diagnosed too late for a cure every year, and today the responsibility to know if you’re at higher risk and to act on it rest entirely on men’s shoulders. This must change.
“Any men worried by Jeremy’s story should take our 30 second online risk checker or have a chat with their GP about a quick and simple blood test to check for any signs.”
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