TV presenter Nick Owen reveals devastating cancer diagnosis
ok.co.ukTelevision presenter Nick Owen has revealed he has been treated for "extensive and aggressive" prostate cancer following a devastated diagnosis.
Nick is best known for working on TV-AM in the 1980s where he co-hosted the show with Anne Diamond. The pair then reunited for hit series Good Morning with Anne and Nick on BBC One from 1992 to 1996.
He has also been one of the lead presenters BBC's Midlands Today since 1997, however, he has taken some time off in recent weeks following his diagnosis.The 75 year old said it had been a "grim" time since he received biopsy results on April 13 this year.
Speaking for the first time about his cancer diagnosis on BBC Midlands Today, he said: “I went to a specialist, he wasn't too worried because my figures weren't that high. “But he decided I ought to have a scan and then the scan said there was something dodgy going on.
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