The Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels star opened up about his cancer diagnosis only months ago, revealing that he had felt unwell for quite some time but had waited to get it checked out with the doctor
Actor Jake Abraham has died aged 56, just months after sharing a stark warning after “leaving it too late” to visit a doctor.
The Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels star opened up about his cancer diagnosis only months ago, revealing that he had felt unwell for quite some time but had waited to get it checked out with the doctor. Jake continued to work until earlier this year – he was in pantomime ‘The Scouse Jack and the Beanstalk’ at the Royal Court, which ran until January. In February, he visited the GP.
Jake told the Liverpool ECHO in July: “I was working but I wasn’t feeling well. I was pushing through those spells when you don’t feel yourself, you haven’t got the energy and there are aches and pains.
“The costume for the play was enormous, I knew I wasn’t well then but I’d not been well for so long. What made me go to the doctor and get a PSA (prostate-specific antigen) test was that I passed blood in my urine. I got a test and ended up in the Royal. He said ‘you’ve got cancer, I’m so, so sorry’. He said that I’d had it for years, maybe four years.”