Chris Hoy reveals he went through ‘torture’ by wearing -27C ice cap during chemotherapy for sake of his son

SIR CHRIS HOY opened up astir the "excruciating" lengths helium went done during chemotherapy aft his crab diagnosis.

Hoy, 48, announced past period during a Sunday Times interrogation that his cancer is terminal.

The six-time Olympic cycling champion went nationalist successful February and confirmed that helium was undergoing treatment, including chemotherapy.

A tumour was recovered successful the Olympian's enarthrosis and a 2nd scan recovered primary crab successful his prostate, which had metastasised to his bones.

Hoy discussed the ordeal helium went done portion undergoing chemotherapy during a brave bout with the illness.

The cyclist had to deterioration freezing acold mittens, socks and an crystal headdress with a somesthesia of -27C.

The British fable decided to spell done that "torture" for the involvement of his lad Callum truthful that helium wouldn't suffer his hairsbreadth during treatment.

Holy told BBC Sport: "It [chemotherapy] was 1 of the biggest challenges I've ever faced and gone through.

"And it's walking into a crab ward, seeing truly sick radical astir you and conscionable feeling similar you're looking into the future.

"They enactment similar these -27C mittens and socks connected and an crystal headdress arsenic well.

"The hands and feet are to halt you losing the consciousness of touch. For your head, it's to forestall hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment oregon to minimise hairsbreadth loss.

"I've not got overmuch hairsbreadth anyway. I wasn't fussed if I mislaid it. I thought that's a tiny terms to pay, but my lad Callum was rather disquieted astir what mightiness happen, are you going to suffer your hair?

"So for him I thought, good this is thing I privation to bash and it's important to do.

"That was the biggest challenge. It was excruciating. It's similar torture. The strategy was conscionable instrumentality it 1 measurement astatine a time.

"Just ticker that seconds manus spell circular the clock. If you tin bash 1 much minute, that's each you request to do."

Sir Chris besides called for a alteration to the existent screening successful England.

The NHS has nary nationalist screening programme for prostate cancer, but men aged 50 and implicit tin inquire their GP for a escaped prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test.

Hoy said: "I judge that the screening for men with a beardown household past of prostate cancer, should beryllium a batch younger, a lot.

"It's logical to maine wherefore would you not conscionable get the trial a small spot earlier, drawback it earlier you request to person immoderate large treatment? So to maine it seems a no-brainer.

"Why would they not trim the age, bring the property down, let much men to conscionable spell successful and get a humor test?"