Colin's cancer is T1 out of five categories
The Dark
Knight star Colin McFarlane is diagnosed with a serious ‘genetic’
disease.
The actor, 61, who is best known for his role in
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy, opened up about his early-stage
prostate cancer.
The father-of-one said he is glad he went for
regular checks for the disease over the past eight years which allowed
doctors to catch it early.
Colin explained to The Mirror that one in four Black men are at
risk of the disease, which kills 12,000 men a year and men are
two-and-a-half times more likely to get prostate cancer if their father or
brother has had it.
The BBC Not Going Out star also encouraged
his two brothers to get checked and one has since discovered he too has
prostate cancer.
Colin told the publication: 'My dad is benign
but he had an operation in 1999 and he said to me, "oh, I decided not to
tell you and your brothers because I didn’t want to worry you".
'He
had no awareness of the fact that, actually, it was really important that he
told us because there’s a genetic link.'
Colin was told by
doctors that his cancer is T1 out of five categories which means it is the
earliest stage so he is at a 'very low risk' and currently does not need any
treatment.
Colin lives in Lincoln and London with wife Kate and
son Josh.
