Punk Rock/New Wave superstar Feargal Sharkey was diagnosed with prostate cancer after visiting his general practitioner for a sore throat.
Sharing the news and urging men everywhere to get tested, the environmental campaigner and former lead singer of the Undertones said the health problem was “resolved” a year ago.
In an interview with London’s Daily Express, the now 66-year old musician said:
“About a year and a half ago, I randomly went to see my GP with a sore throat.” “So my doctor, being the beautiful, wonderful, awkward, cantankerous old man that he is, went: ‘Oh Feargal, by the way, you’re 65 now, I’m going to run the full battery of tests.’ “Two days later, it turns out, I began a journey which led to prostate cancer.” “Thankfully, that’s all now been resolved a year ago. But here we are, had it not been for that random visit to my local GP, I would never have known that I was at that point carrying prostate cancer, and if it had not been seen to, it could have been a very different ending and a very different outcome to my life.”
Feargal Sharkey was the lead vocalist of the Undertones in the 1970s and 1980s, and charted as a solo artist with hits such as ‘You Little Thief’ in the 1980s.
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Author: Saul Goode
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