Routine check-up saved my life, says Fry after cancer is found

STEPHEN FRY said his “life was saved” by doctors after a routine health check revealed he had cancer.

The author and broadcaster underwent prostate surgery last month and “as far as we know it’s all been got”.

He disclosed the news on his website, saying: “For the last two months I’ve been in the throes of a rather unwelcome and unexpected adventure.”

Fry, 60, left, was diagnosed by chance when he went for a flu jab in December and was offered “a general MOT”. A blood test showed potential problems so he had an MRI scan and biopsy. Doctors removed his prostate and 11 lymph nodes. Describing the shock of learning he had cancer, he said: “Cancer is a word that rings in your head … I know it’s an old cliché but you don’t think it’s going to happen to you. Cancer is something that happens to other people.”

Prostate cancer affects one in eight men. Fry said: “I felt my life was saved by early intervention so I would urge any men of a certain age to get your prostate specific antigen levels checked.”