Kenny Logan, the former Scotland rugby union international and husband of TV presenter Gabby, has revealed he is battling prostate cancer.
He was diagnosed in February after being urged to get checked by his wife, and has recently undergone treatment. The 50-year-old said: "I was actually listening to one of the episodes about menopause about women and their hormones falling off a cliff.
Appearing on BBC Breakfast, Logan said: "As I was going through this in my head, and I thought 'what about me', 'what is happening to me', and Gabby said that I should go and get checked. I went to get a wellness check and he said that everything was fine with my hormones but your prostate is high, your PSA is high so you should go and get checked."
And Logan, who won 70 caps and scored 220 points for his country in an illustrious career, explained how his worst fears were soon realised: "I had a biopsy, but this year on February 7 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, which was a huge shock."
The popular star then had to choose whether to undergo radiotherapy, brachytherapy, or surgery to have his prostate removed. And the winger, who also made more than 100 club appearances with London Wasps, opted to undergo surgery.
"I ended up deciding to take it out," he added. "So I'm now three months since the operation, had the prostate out. And I'm probably 95 per cent back to normal, maybe 90% back to normal."
And in an apparent warning to other men, Logan warned there had been no signs of his condition: "It’s hard when you’re told you’ve got cancer – and I’d literally fell over it, I didn’t see it coming, no symptoms whatsoever – I had to go looking for it," he said.
Gabby, 49, who was hailed for her inspiring work during the women's Euro 2022 tournament this summer, described how her husband was training as normal just 24 hours before his critical operation: "I think that was the shocking thing for both of us that the day before he went in for his operation, I'm jumping forwards a bit, he'd done a bike session," she said.
"He had no pain, he had no symptoms. And to go in and have surgery which is a really invasive surgery and it obviously takes a long to recover from you're going to feel a lot worse after it. But very, very, very lucky."
