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Dreadful news the guy has terminal cancer. One of my favourite sportsman or women growing up, a true inspiration. I’m all for healthy living and some exercise is good for your mental health too which is key in this day and age but this idea that being young and healthy will keep the dreaded C at bay is being debunked. This is one of the healthiest men in the country probably. Its a terrible disease but I truely believe its random or cruel fate. Be healthy by all means but above all else do what you want to do and make the most of life because if its going to happen its going to happen I’m afraid. Thoughts with him and his loved ones.
Yes, it is dreadful news.
11 time world champion and a six time Olympic champion is some record.
My heart goes out to his family – I lost my sister to cancer aged 44 and also my mother at the ripe old age of 92 – it is a ******* disease.
Very sad news, especially as his wife is also unwell with MS. Dreadful for their children who are still relatively young I believe.
A phenomenal sportsman, one of our best by any measure, surely a big part of the reason that cycling enjoys the popularity in this country that it does today and by all accounts a thoroughly decent chap as well.
London 2012 was a great time and he’ll always be one of the first names I associate with it.
Horrible news, it really is a cruel world, thoughts and prayers are with his family. He truly was one of our best sportsmen, and such an inspiration to so many.
It’s hard to know what to say, he was a superb athlete and a superb man who was one
of the few that deserved his Knighthood. Matron, I’m so sorry to hear about your
loss of your sister and your mother with cancer. I lost my older brother, 3 years
older than me, who died of colorectal cancer when he was 52.This disease has become a scourge and 1 in 2 people will get some form of cancer
in their lifetime. It doesn’t seem that fitness comes into it, so what can you do?
I wish I knew the answer. Chris says that his consultant gives him between 2 and
4 years. Let’s hope that within that time they come up with some answers as to
how they can treat such cancers and give a lot of people some hope.I’m all for healthy living and some exercise is good for your mental health too which is key in this day and age but this idea that being young and healthy will keep the dreaded C at bay is being debunked
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle reduces the risk of developing cancer – and other diseases – but it doesn’t prevent it. Hereditary (genetic) preponderance to a disease is at least as important as lifestyle: apparently both Hoy’s father and grandfather developed prostate cancer
There’s long been debate on the risk of developing ‘nether region’ cancers amongst those whose sport involves physical trauma on said area; particularly testicular cancer. Lance Armstrong in cycling, Bob Champion and Jonjo O’Neill in racing spring to mind
It’s anything but certain but here’s a link, and there’s plenty more on google-land too
Does Cycling Increase Risk for Testicular or Prostate Cancer?
Chris Hoy comes across as a thoroughly likeable and decent man and I hope he makes the best of the time he’s got left, which I’m sure he will
The PSA test is available on the NHS for all men over 50, so for those in that cohort reading this get it done
My first test at the too-advanced age of around 60 revealed a raised PSA level which necessitated a prostate biopsy, though thankfully that revealed just an enlarged prostate, for which I take daily medication. No more broken sleep due to an urgent need to piddle
So sorry to hear about Chris Hoy, but it’s wrong to extrapolate too much form one case. Approx 1/3rd of deaths are from cancer, 1/3rd from non-cancer chronic illness eg heart failure, COPD, stroke), 1/3rd are sudden deaths. As we live longer, due to improved social determinants of health (wealth, employment, food, hygiene, sanitation, education) rather than medical science, the % of deaths due to cancer increases, as cancer is mainly a disease of old age.
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