The former BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull has said he wants to make “all the days count” after putting off going to the doctor for four years and then being diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer. Turnbull, 62, who now presents a show on Classic FM and is married with three adult children, said in Radio Times that the disease had spread to his legs, hips, pelvis and ribs. “The contract I thought I had with life has been shortened quite a bit,” he said. The average life expectancy for someone whose cancer has spread to the bones was a decade, he said, but his consultant’s aim was for 18 years. I’m realistic about the long-term prospects, but they’re not bad,”…

Source: The Times March 05, 2018 23:48 UTC