Dark Knight star Colin: I have got prostate cancer

Actor reveals diagnosis so others will get tested

- MELISSA SIGODO

ACTOR Colin McFarlane has revealed he has early stage prostate cancer.

The 61-year-old star, best known for his role in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy as well as BBC sitcom Not Going Out, was given the diagnosis in December following testing.

Married father-of-one Colin said he is glad to have kept up with his checks over the past eight years, which caught the cancer early.

The actor said one in four Black men are at risk of the disease, which kills 12,000 men a year.

But he said not many know that men are two-and-a-half times more likely to get prostate cancer if their father or brother has had it.

His father Sidney had issues with his own enlarged prostate, which turned out to be benign.