This Morning guest details moment he found out about cancer 'I felt sick'

Olympian Sir Chris Hoy has courageously shared the details of his struggle with prostate cancer, having been diagnosed with stage four of the disease last year.

The renowned six-time gold medallist now faces a tough prognosis, with an expected two to four years left to live as the cancer has spread to his bones.

Appearing on ITV's This Morning, Sir Chris and his wife Lady Sarra Hoy discussed their challenges for the first time.

Cat Deeley and Dermot O'Leary hosted the show as the couple detailed how their family, including a young son and daughter, have dealt with the public revelation of his illness since February, reports OK!

Sir Chris opened up about the persistent shoulder pain that eventually unraveled his diagnosis during an interview on the show.

Despite his status as an athlete well-attuned to physical exertion and its pains, he explained: "I had this pain in my shoulder, and it wouldn't go away. I was 47 then, still lifting weights in the gym, still physically active. You're used to having aches and pains [at that age], but this one didn't go away."

He told of the shocking diagnosis at his GP's surgery, adding: "I went to get the scan at the doctor's surgery, and they brought the scan up and said 'there's a tumour on your shoulder, we need to find out what the root of this is',

"So, I had multiple other scans and eventually the root of it was a prostate, and it was stage four prostate cancer which had spread to the bones. [I had] no symptoms, nothing to point to this diagnosis until the shoulder pain, so it came out of the blue."

On the subject of health consciousness, he stated: "I always prided myself as someone who would go to the doctor with illness or pain."

Speaking of the late discovery, Chris expressed: "As part of being an athlete, you're used to looking after your body and being quite aware of yourself, but in this case, it was too late by the time we had actually found the diagnosis."

Recounting the emotionally shattering moment when he got the news, Chris revealed: "We were in the room, and we got the diagnosis, and I felt sick, I felt nauseous, and the room felt like it was spinning."

Continuing, he detailed the traumatic impact, telling the ITV stars "I had to get up, but I couldn't sit still, and it's not the news that you can ever prepare yourself for.

"You can never imagine yourself in that situation and a million thoughts are running through your head. The first one was 'How on earth are we going to tell the kids?"

After her husband, Chris, was diagnosed with cancer, Sarra received the heart-wrenching news that she had multiple sclerosis. In the beginning, she kept her diagnosis a secret, feeling it 'wasn't the right time' to burden him with more health issues.

Sarra later expressed: "It's been tough, but actually, we've been able to do it together. Once you're in it, you can cope with so much more than you think."

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