Like Sir Chris Hoy, I was told I was on borrowed time...YET HERE I AM, A DECADE LATER

Kevin Webber has raised more than £1million since his terminal diagnosis. As he prepares for his next challenge, he shares a message of hope with the Olympic cycling legend who revealed his own sad prostate cancer news this week

- Kat Hopps

WHEN Kevin Webber heard about Sir Chris Hoy's terminal cancer diagnosis at the weekend, he felt a familiar pang of sadness. Like the six-time Olympian cycling champion, he is also living on borrowed time, with stage four prostate cancer. Recalling the devastating terminal sentence he was handed aged 49, the father of three remembers: "It was just doom and gloom. I was told I could have two years, maybe three or four. My urologist actually said, 'Don't think 10 [years].""

Hoy, who is 48, revealed on Sunday that doctors had given him between two and four years to live after his prostate cancer spread to his shoulder, hip, pelvis, ribs and spine.

The Scot has two young children, Callum and Chloe, 10 and seven, with his wife Sarra, who, in an agonising double blow, has incurable MS. He later took to Instagram to say he was "feeling fit, strong and positive, and overwhelmed by all the love and support shown to my family and me".

Kevin identifies with the Olympic gold medallist's sentiments.

"It always upsets me when I hear of another man and their families being destroyed by this indiscriminate murderer of a disease," Kevin tells the Daily Express.

"When I heard about Sir Chris, it made me so sad for a man and his family who already have their own struggles and who have given so much to the nation and inspired so many."

But positivity in the face of adversity is something the two men share. And should Hoy be in need of comfort or inspiration on his lowest days, he could do worse than to listen to Kevin's story, because on November 6, the 59-year-old will mark his 10-year "cancerversary".