American actor, Ben Stiller has revealed he was diagnosed with an ‘aggressive’ form of cancer two years ago – and secretly had surgery to remove his prostate.
The 50-year-old actor opened up about his battle with the disease for the first time in an interview on Tuesday’s Howard Stern Show.
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He said his doctors diagnosed him with ‘immediately aggressive’ prostrate cancer in June 2014 and two months later, he underwent surgery.
By September that year, he was told he was cancer-free.
Now, he is urging men to speak to their doctors about being tested at an earlier age.
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‘It came out of the blue for me,’ Stiller said. ‘I had no idea.’
His tumour had been growing for five years, he said, and had he not had a PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test done, he wouldn’t have realised he had one.
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