I even blame them for my prostate cancer

NOEL EDMONDS was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2013 and believes that the stress of dealing with HBOS triggered the disease.

‘I am absolutely sure the negative forces acting on me impacted on my health,’ he says.

‘There is a wealth of information from various clinical studies of a direct link between stress and cancer. I am absolutely certain there was a link in my case.

‘I don’t say cancer was caused by the stress, but that my health deteriorated to such an extent I got prostate cancer.’

‘I always had good health. People, to this day, very kindly say, “You must have a portrait in the attic because you never seem to age”,’ says the TV presenter, who does indeed look a decade younger than his 68 years.

Thankfully, he has been in remission since 2015 and believes that a return to his customary optimistic outlook after a decade of stress and depression helped his recovery.

‘I am certain that positive energy assisted my doctor’s work in ridding me of the cancer,’ he says.

Noel was treated by renowned oncologist Professor Mark Emberton of University College London Hospital, a champion of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound or Hifu therapy.

Hifu destroys cancer cells – but not healthy cells – by, in effect, cooking them at 70 to 80 degrees while leaving the prostate gland intact.

The treatment claims a very high success rate.

Nonetheless, Noel says: ‘It is very unpleasant. It wiped me out, but I avoided the chemo and being radiated.

‘In June 2015 I was given the all-clear.

‘What’s left of the mass of the tumour is looking okay now. I was very, very fortunate.

‘I had none of the classic symptoms but, fortunately, I have six-monthly medicals, so it was picked up.

‘I wanted to keep it quiet, initially, but so many men die of ignorance each year.’

Edmonds does not, however, like to use the word ‘cured’.

He also believes – in contrast to accepted medical wisdom – that everyone has the disease in latent form and that it could be triggered at any time.

‘I am in remission. There is no such thing as a cure for cancer. I don’t say I have a cure for cancer, because the best you can be is in remission.

‘We all have it and you never know when it’s going to come and have a nibble.’