Global superstar, Sir Cliff Richard, has revealed that while on his Can’t Stop This Now tour, he was battling prostate cancer. Now, he wants to work with King Charles to introduce a national prostate cancer screening process in the United Kingdom.
Speaking to Good Morning Britain, the 85-year-old singer said that his treatment for prostate cancer has been “successful”.
He revealed that he received a prostate cancer diagnosis while doing healthchecks during his latest tour, Can’t Stop Me Now. It was his first tour to bring him Down Under in over a decade. And fans had no idea that while he was performing on stage, he was undergoing treatment for cancer.
“I was about to embark on a tour,” he started. “I was going to Australia and to New Zealand, and the promoter said, ‘Well, we need your insurance. So you need to be checked up for something. They found that… my prostate had cancer. But the good fortune was that it was not very old. And the other thing is that it has not metastasised. Hadn’t moved into bones or anything like that.”
According to the report, Cliff is pushing for a national screening process for men in Great Britain and hopes that King Charles, who has some kind of prostate cancer, would be the face of the campaign and lend his royal support to it.
“If the king is happy to front it for us, I’m sure loads of people, I certainly would join him. If the king is listening, then I think most of us would say we’re available.”
“That cancer’s gone at the moment,” he shared. “I don’t know whether it’s going to come back. We can’t tell those sorts of things, but we need to absolutely get there, get tested, get checked. I think as men [we’ve] got to start saying, we’ve got to be seen as human beings who may die of this thing.”
The Can’t Stop Me Now tour was seen as potentially the music legend’s finale, but it appears his next project is to get a national screening process in place.
“I’m a very fortunate person because I got what I wanted in terms of my career, and then with the cancer, this is the most important thing that has happened to me.”
