SIR Chris Hoy has vowed to fight his stage four prostate cancer and still has hope for the future.
The six time Olympic gold medalist has “15 to 16 options” on the table to prolong his life thanks to Professor Sir Chris Evans.
Speaking alongside Chris Hoy at a Q and A session for Community Socials Cancer Awareness Trust in London, Evans, 67, said: “This is clever stuff.
“With Chris you’re gonna go through one or two steps and see how they go but there’s about 15, 16 things we can do.
“Which I hope he has none of them. And he probably won’t as he looks better than me.
“Positive people with cancer do a lot better than the negative people with cancer, they respond better to whatever the treatment.”
Insisting he still is optimistic about the future, Chris branded himself “lucky” before adding: “The biggest shift in my mentality in the last year and a half is learning to slow things down and still have the goals, still have the purpose, still have things to look forward to, but actually to appreciate the moment.
“Because the future doesn’t exist. The future is this abstract concept that we worry about that may never happen, we often worry about the wrong thing, often actually something comes out of left field, like cancer.”
Vowing not to lose his spark and love of life, Chris said: “I thought, right, I’ve got to build my troop around me.
“The people who for all different kinds of components that you need, you know, my wife who is right at the top of the list, she’s my rock, she’s the foundation.
“But you’ve also got all the different people that you bring to you that matter to you, and that can help you.
“You have to find hope because for good reason the doctors can’t give you false hope, they can’t promise you anything.
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“You don’t have to be positive every day as it is impossible to be positive all the time.
“But I think, for me, it’s about choosing not to be negative more than being positive.”
Looking ahead to the future, Chris, who has a prognosis of two to four years, said: “I think it’s so important to still have big ambitions and goals and reason to drive you on and to have a focus and to not think too far ahead.
[quote]Positive people with cancer do a lot better than the negative people with cancer, they respond better to whatever the treatment[/quote]“I still have plans to still have big exciting things and I have got plenty of those coming up in family holidays and having Tour De Four [his charity race] means I want to be fit and I want to go well .
“I want to train for it, so every time I go on the bike I think about that and the purpose behind it.
“But while I’m on the bike, I’m looking around me and I’m trying to take in, I look thinking ‘this is beautiful’ even if it’s raining .
“I’ve got three or four friends who passed away very suddenly without any warning, without the chance to appreciate life, without the chance to say ‘aren’t we lucky?’
“So, yeah, for me now, it is very much is about the present, but still looking forward to the future.”
