{"id":126021,"date":"2021-09-09T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=126021"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T07:57:00","slug":"supercars-icons-accidental-cancer-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=126021","title":{"rendered":"Supercars icon's 'accidental' cancer discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supercars icon Neil Crompton<\/a> has revealed he would have been dead within five years had his prostate cancer not been "accidentally" discovered.<\/p>\n

The 'Voice of Supercars<\/a>' missed two rounds of this year's championship to undergo surgery, after he was diagnosed earlier this year. He's now back behind the microphone.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the V8 Sleuth Podcast<\/a>, Crompton revealed how bad things might have been.<\/p>\n

"[I'm] not 100 per cent healthy right now, frankly, but very close to it," he said.<\/p>\n

\"Neil<\/p>\n

"There's still a few little things that I'm navigating around, but [I've got] an unbelievable team of doctors.<\/p>\n

"A little footnote in the pathology from it all – had we not accidentally tripped over what happened – I would've been dead somewhere between a year and five years from now."<\/p>\n

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The 61-year-old twice finished on the podium at the Bathurst 1000 during his career, in 1992 and 1995, and was a former teammate of the legendary Peter Brock.<\/p>\n

"[The] operation went well, the aftermath's going well," he explained.<\/p>\n

"There's an ongoing monitoring to make sure that it stays that way; you're never 100 per cent out of the woods.<\/p>\n

"It was a pretty frightening time, quite frankly.<\/p>\n

\"Neil<\/p>\n

Describing himself as the last of the Mohicans without social media, Crompton nonetheless revealed he'd been blown away by the support from the Supercars community and fans.<\/p>\n

"The response and the support and the messages of care and love and concern were really uplifting," he said.<\/p>\n

"It's hard to actually find the right words that don't sound like you're just reading off the script, but it was a seismic shift in my life and a hell of a wake-up call of how dramatically sideways things can go.<\/p>\n

"But, a beautiful reckoning that whatever I've done – good, bad or indifferent in motorsport – and I won't be everybody's cup of tea, but there's certainly some people out there that have enjoyed my work and they expressed that, and it's a really lovely thing."<\/p>\n

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