Overview
- In a new Press Association interview, Marsh said learning her dad’s incurable condition "broke" the family and left her mother of 60 years devastated.
- Dave Marsh died in 2024 at 74 after he delayed seeing a doctor during the pandemic, which let the cancer spread and made it incurable.
- Marsh said helping others was her father’s first aim after his diagnosis, and she has kept up their awareness work in his memory.
- The next step comes Sunday, when future daughter-in-law Carmen Dickinson plans to run the London Marathon in his memory as the family cheers her on.
- Prostate Cancer UK says one in eight men will get prostate cancer, with higher risk over 50, of Black ethnicity, or with family history, and the NHS warns early signs can be subtle.