An Australian man with terminal cancer has achieved his lifelong dream of hosting a prime-time commercial radio show.
Listeners to Melbourne's GOLD 104.3 were greeted with an unfamiliar voice on Wednesday morning, after popular breakfast host Christian O'Connell temporarily stepped away from the microphone.
Victorian man Peter Logan guest-presenting GOLD 104.3’s breakfast show.
"I'm at what they describe as the palliative stage. The thing is, the medication – as with all chemotherapy medication – breaks down my entire body, not just the cancer cells. So it'll get to a point where my body can't take the medicine anymore and I'll have to stop taking it.
"The best thing I can do is stop other people finding themselves in that situation. If we could have saved one person, then it's all worth it."
Logan dedicated the last few minutes of the show to talk about bowel cancer screening, a topic he is particularly passionate about. He said almost all forms of cancer are treatable as long as they're detected at an early stage.
"With bowel cancer, we're all sent testing kits from the government at the age of 50," he said. "Sadly, only 40 per cent of kits that are sent out ever get returned. And if you don't respond the first time, you don't get a second test [after two years].
Speaking of his stint as a radio host, Logan said it was an experience he'll never forget.
"They really allowed me to do what I wanted to do, obviously within the boundaries of the format," he said.
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