Sir Cliff Richard says he has been treated for prostate cancer

Sir Cliff Richard says he has been treated for prostate cancer for the past year.

The 85-year-old singer said his cancer had "gone at the moment" and backed calls for a national screening test for men.

In an interview with Good Morning Britain, he said: "I was about to embark on a tour... I was going to Australia and New Zealand, and the promoter said well we need your insurance, so you'll need to be checked up for something.

"They found I had prostate with cancer, but the good fortune was, it was not very old. And the other thing is that it had not metastasized. It hadn't moved into bones or anything like that.

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

"I think we as men... we've got to be seen as human beings who may die of this thing."

Sir Cliff said he was diagnosed after a health check for his insurance ahead of a concert tour of Australia and New Zealand.

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