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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Holly Bishop

Dermot Murnaghan issues plea in first live interview since stage four cancer diagnosis

Dermot Murnaghan has opened up about his stage four prostate cancer diagnosis, calling it a “bolt from the blue”.

Speaking to Sky NewsAnna Jones on Wednesday (27 August), the former presenter said that he “foolishly” forgot to get a test despite “speaking to people about this very issue for years”.

Mr Murnaghan, who shared his diagnosis earlier this year, said he had every intention to go for a screening, but “life intervened”.

“So what happened was at the end of last year I fell very ill on a foreign holiday and kind of rushed back here to get treated by a wonderful health service and was diagnosed, a real bolt from the blue."

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