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Former TV-am host Nick Owen admits he struggled to tell his children of his prostate cancer diagnosis after discovering he had an 'extensive' and 'aggressive' strain of the illness


The former TV-am host confirmed he was battling 'extensive' and 'aggressive' prostate cancer in August, and has since been successfully treated.

And he admits his first decision was to tell his four adult children, two of them boys, so they could be aware of the potentially hereditary illness and its warning signs. He admits his first decision was to tell his four adult children, two of them boys, so they could be aware of the potentially hereditary illness and its warning signs Owen received his diagnosis just weeks after his former TV-am co-presenter Anne Diamond revealed she is battling breast cancer and has undergone a mastectomy

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