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Nick Owen credits his enduring 40-year friendship with Anne Diamond for helping them through parallel cancer battles: 'I like to feel that we've both helped each other get through it'
Owen admits there's a terrible irony in Diamond's breast cancer diagnosis coming shortly before doctors discovered he had an 'aggressive' form of prostate cancer.
It's ironic really, isn't it, that people of a certain age associate us as a couple, very much going back 40 years plus now, and we almost simultaneously end up with the two prime male and female cancers and are sort of being treated in parallel.' And Owen says the worrying figures were the catalyst for his new podcast, which offers men a safe space to talk about prostate cancer, while the disease's potential hereditary link prompted him to make his three sons hyper-vigilant. Owen is now cancer free and back at work - albeit on a part-time basis - after having his prostate, including 25 lymph nodes, completely removed during a painstaking emergency operation.
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