Former BBC Breakfast presenter Turnbull reveals prostate cancer

Former BBC Breakfast host Bill Turnbull has revealed that he is suffering from prostate cancer.

The Classic FM host, 62, said that he was diagnosed at the end of last year, after longterm aches and pains which he had put down to “old age” were no longer being alleviated with pills.

Turnbullsaidthatthecancer had spread to the bone.

He wants others to know his condition to encourage people to get tested, saying that “maybe if I’d got it earlier and stopped it at the prostate, I’d 0 Bill Turnbull said that the cancer had spread to the bone be in a much better state”. The broadcaster said: “The worst thing is, you carry it through the day and then you go to bed at night and wake up in the morning and it comes to you again. I have got cancer. I’ve still got cancer. It wasn’t a bad dream. And that takes a lot of dealing with.”

The disease, which had been developing in his prostate, has spread to his legs, hips, pelvis and ribs.

Turnbull, father of Henry, 29, Will, 28 and Flora, 26, said of being diagnosed: “Those first few days were probably the worst days of my life.”

He said: “The GP said, ‘It’s clear you have prostate cancer and that it’s spread to the bone’. And all of a sudden you’re in this dark chasm.

“That first moment is a real shell shock.”