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| Subject: Yee-Pee! Conservative talkback host Alan Jones catches cancer! Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:52 am | |
| Alan Jones has revealed that he has prostate cancer.
The 67-year-old 2GB broadcaster said he wanted to avoid rumours.
He said he would be undergoing surgery in a couple of weeks time after a biopsy and that he had been told the prospects of a full recovery were good.
"We don't do dying around here. We just try and make the most of living," he said at a press conference at noon.
He would be off air for several weeks while recovering from the operation, he told media gathered at the Macquarie Radio studios in Sydney.
Jones said he was diagnosed in May after doctors examined 20 samples, and his cancer had been described as in the mid-range in terms of seriousness.
The surgery would be carried out at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital in two weeks, and Jones said he intended to be on air until the eve of the operation.
He would return to broadcasting after the operation, he said.
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