People think it’s like this (he makes a rubber glove gesture), but it’s not. Everyone else goes ‘oh I’m not waiting’, so you end up there with the appointment. I know people might be waiting in a line and there’s 18 in the queue, but just stick with the queue. But that could be avoided if you just get a PSA test. Well I’m palliative now, I found out really late down the line and there’s nothing they can do for me - I’ve just got it now and I’ve just got to wait for the day. “I think most men take the approach of ‘oh, I’ll get on with it’. To prepare for that and be cognitive mentally, but knowing that’s what’s coming, it’s tough. It’s scary, to be confronted with your own mortality is the most scary thing you’ll ever go through. “Doctors have told me it could be months, it could be years,” he said. He has received radiotherapy treatment but his now receiving palliative care. He has tumours on his spine, his hips and has had one removed from his bladder. Read more: Co-founder of iconic Welsh company diesĪbraham was diagnosed with prostate cancer which has spread. He said that I’d had it for years, maybe four years.” He said ‘you’ve got cancer, I’m so, so sorry’. I got a test and ended up in the Royal (a hospital in Liverpool). What made me go to the doctor and get a PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test was that I passed blood in my urine. The costume for the play was enormous, I knew I wasn’t well then but I’d not been well for so long. I was pushing through those spells when you don’t feel yourself, you haven’t got the energy and there are aches and pains. He told the Liverpool Echo: “I was working but I wasn’t feeling well. Liverpool-born Abraham was performing in a play in January and said he went to see his doctor in February after a period of not feeling himself. You can get the latest WalesOnline newsletters e-mailed to you directly for free by signing up here. Jake Abraham played Dean in the 1998 gangster film ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ - one of two bumbling Scousers who try to get rich from a deal involving guns and some rather unpleasant characters.Ībraham’s performance - alongside his on-screen associate Victor McGuire - was one of the most iconic in what was Guy Ritchie’s debut film which also starred Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones. An actor who played one of the most memorable characters in one of the most iconic British films of all time has revealed he “left it too late” to see a doctor and has now been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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