Sir Chris Hoy issues new terminal cancer health update after hailing 'miracle drug'

 Sir Chris Hoy has said he is doing "as well as can be expected" as the Olympics legend approaches three years since his cancer diagnosis. Sir Chris, who recently worked at the Commonwealth Games as a cycling commentator for TNT Sports, was given a prostate cancer diagnosis in 2023, which metastasised to his pelvis, hip, spine and ribs.

The following year he announced that he had been given a terminal cancer diagnosis, with doctors informing Hoy that he had between two and four years left to live. Next month will mark the third year since that conversation and the Team GB icon has opened up on his current condition.

"I'm doing really well, thank you," he told The Guardian. "As well as can be expected, really."

Hoy is approaching the third year of his anticipated life expectancy and the former cyclist acknowledged there are moments when the timeframe weighs on his thoughts.

He added: "A little, but not really because these are average statistics you get in the very early days. You have to remember the people outliving those statistics can't be added to the data yet.

"But not everybody is as lucky as me to respond to treatment. Sadly, you have people like Dermot Murnaghan [the television journalist who died from prostate cancer last month]. I'd been confident and hopeful he and I would do the Tour de 4 for many years to come. So that was a big blow, a huge shock when I got the message from his family saying the time was coming."

Hoy's optimistic mindset has remained a recurring feature throughout his diagnosis, which he attributes to his cycling sessions and maintaining an active lifestyle. He told Sky Sports last year: "I've entered a bit of a stability stage at the moment.

"I'm feeling good, exercising, riding the bike, busy and most importantly cancer is not the first thing I think about in the morning when I wake up and it's not the last thing I think about when I go to bed at night.

"I feel good, you know, I'm on constant medications, constant treatment, but it's not interfering too much with my life. And the most important thing is it's working, so I'm stable at the moment, everything's good.

"So making hay while the sun shines."

Last week, Hoy described exercise as something that would be viewed as a 'miracle drug' by the public - if it was available in the form of a tablet.

"Exercise is a big part of my dealing with my cancer," he explained to The Big Issue. "There's numerous studies to show that exercise can improve the efficacy of the cancer medications. It can improve your time to relapse.

"If it was in pill form, it would be hailed as a miracle drug. Actually, for my diagnosis, it took a long time to find any positivity or opportunity from that really difficult situation. For me, that was saying maybe we can change attitudes to Stage 4 cancer.

Hoy has generated millions of pounds for UK cancer charities and continues to concentrate on supporting men nationwide in the battle against prostate cancer.

He added: "I have all kinds of goals and the biggest are raising as much money as we can for these amazing charities, changing perceptions of what is possible during a stage 4 diagnosis and also trying to one day have some proactive gateway to screen men - so less men die of prostate cancer as a result of my diagnosis. That would be quite something."