Former Republic of Ireland defender and assistant manager Chris Hughton has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year.<\/p>\n
The 67-year-old, who played for Tottenham, West Ham, Brentford and Ireland before moving into coaching, underwent surgery last May.<\/p>\n
He told the Daily Mail: “I had very good advice and all the treatment options were given to me, and I decided to have my prostate removed. The recovery has gone really well.<\/p>\n
“I’m one year post-operation and I feel good. It’s all gone very well. I’ve got a lot of energy.<\/p>\n
“Keeping active and busy is part of how I am anyway, but it’s also about rehabilitation and keeping your mind active as well.<\/p>\n
“I’m very comfortable with my prognosis and my post-operation feelings. I’m in a really good place.”<\/p>\n
Hughton, who won the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup with Spurs, also managed Brighton, Newcastle, Birmingham, Norwich, Nottingham Forest and, most recently, Ghana.<\/p>\n
He was Brian Kerr’s Ireland No 2 between 2003 and 2005.<\/p>\n
One in eight men will be affected by prostate cancer, and that risk doubles in black men.<\/p>\n
Hughton added: “Mine is a good story and if it can help anybody, particularly in the black community, where we know that the percentages are a lot higher, then I’d be really happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Republic of Ireland defender and assistant manager Chris Hughton has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-415372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}