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You were diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1999. How did you find out?

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I’d been selected to take a random drugs test after the Scottish Cup final – we’d just lost 1- 0 to Rangers, so I wasn’t happy. But it saved my life. I received a phone call two weeks later on the golf course, saying the test had come back positive. I said, “That’s impossible – I’ve never touched a thing.” I was producing a hormone normally found in pregnant women, and if it’s found in men it’s often linked to cancer. I said there might have been a little lump on one of my testicles, but I didn’t think it was anything. I had some tests and I had cancer.

I had an operation, but a year later I suffered a relapse and a tumour was discovered at the base of my spine, which was serious. I needed two courses of chemothera­py, before having an eight- hour operation when the tumour was cut out. There was a 20- inch scar on my chest.

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