Sir Cliff: I had cancer.. but it's gone for now

Pop legend reveals he had treatment for prostate illness & backs screening

- BY LAUREN MORRIS

SIR Cliff Richard revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer, which has "gone at the moment".

The legendary singer, 85, announced his diagnosis during an interview on Good Morning Britain yesterday.

He said the disease had been caught early and had not spread, adding that he has "been for one year now in touch with cancer".

Sir Cliff said his cancer was detected when his health was checked for his insurance before a recent tour of Australia and New Zealand.

He added: "They found that I had prostate cancer. The good fortune was that it was not very old, and the other thing is that it has not metastasised.

"Nothing had moved into bones or anything like that.

"The cancer's gone at the moment. I don't know whether it's going to come back. We can't tell those sort of things but we need to, absolutely, I'm convinced, get there, get tested, get checked."