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PHILLY MORRIS (born 13 July 1972 Merseyside) Is one of the UK's leading campaigners for more testicular cancer awareness for young men. He served in the British Army from 1990 until he left the forces with campaign medals and a number of boxing medals in 1997. When embarking on civilian life he became a drummer for Duncan Ross blues band along with other acts such as Deltarest.

He set up the UK's most famous testicular cancer website checkemlads.com with the help of well known musicians Steve White and Paul Weller after he was told he had cancer in April of 2003. In this time Philly also managed to force more awareness of Testosterone replacement with Long time campaigner and cancer survivor Nick O'Hara Smith in men who had lost a testicle or testicles to injury or cancer which was widely ignored until recent pressure on health authorities from Philly and Nick. Philly works along side his close friend Mick Riley who also survived cancer of the testicles in 1998. Even though they are from the same area in Merseyside, shared a room in the army and were in the same boxing team in Germany, both had the same cancer within 5 years of each other; the chances of this are around 560,000:1 which still baffles leading cancer experts today.

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