CELEBRITIES WHO’VE BATTLED PROSTATE CANCER

Actor Ben Stiller (52) revealed he was cancer-free in 2016 after being diagnosed with the disease in June 2014 at age 48. “It’s a whole new world so you need to educate yourself. For me, it was learning what the options were,” he said.

Actor Robert De Niro (74) was diagnosed with cancer and had treatment in 2003. He doesn’t speak much about it in public, but his artist father, Robert Snr, died of cancer in 1993 at 71.

Actor Roger Moore died aged 89 after a short battle with cancer last year. It wasn’t the first time the James Bond actor had battled the disease. In 1993 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had surgery to remove his prostate. He said the cancer had changed his life.

Actor and author Stephen Fry (60) announced in February he’d been diagnosed with the “aggressive little bugger” late last year, and had his prostate removed. “Cancer is just something that rings in your head,” the comic said.

Oscar winner Sidney Poitier (91) underwent prostate surgery in June 1993 after four biopsies. When news broke about Robert De Niro’s diagnosis, Sidney was quick to offer encouragement. “It’s never an easy fight. It’s a disease that takes way too many people,” he said.

South Africa is still mourning music legend Hugh Masekela, who died in January aged 78. He’d been undergoing treatment for cancer since 2008 when doctors discovered a small “speck” on his bladder.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu (86) has been admitted to hospital many times after recurring infections resulting from past treatment for prostate cancer, according to News24. He’s been living with the disease for nearly 20 years.