Brisbane Lions Football Strategy Coach, Danny Daly, has opened up about his battle with cancer.
Daly was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer earlier this year, and he has described how he heard about the news after the Lions’ Round 3 loss to Port Adelaide.
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“Urologist Greg Malone, he is a fantastic person, he was trying to get hold of me during that weekend,” Daly told SEN's Whateley.
“Of course I was in Adelaide getting ready for the game and we had the game, when I turned my phone on, I had a text message from him, apologising he couldn’t speak to me but to check my emails.
“The email basically stated the results of the biopsy which were I had an aggressive form of prostate cancer in my gland and my prostate.
“Fortunately enough in the industry we have doctors at the club, so we had a doctor there and I basically gave him my phone and I said, mate, can you explain this some more.
“He said, 'I think you’re in a bit of strife here mate, as soon as you get back to Brisbane go and see him and figure out what you need to do'.
“It was a tough day to be beaten by five points and then finding out that news, it wasn’t the greatest day.
“I was very shocked. I didn’t have any symptoms at all, I’m quite fit for my age and run most days, healthy and didn’t have ay symptoms at all.
“I was pretty shocked at the news.”
Daly also says he hopes his story can help assist others facing the same circumstance.
“I’m not one who likes to talk about myself to be honest but this is a story which I think I need to tell as many people as I can because if I can save one person, that’s a great result for me,” he said.
“That’s what I will do moving forward, just try to educate people about how important it is because I was like one of them, I just never thought it could happen to me.”
Listen to Danny Daly open up about his battle with cancer with Gerard Whateley on SEN’s Whateley in the player below