Philly Morris

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PHILLY MORRIS (born 13 July 1972 Heswall,Merseyside) Is one of the UK's leading campaigners for more testicular cancer awareness for young men.

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[edit] Early years

Philly left Pensby high school in 1988 to become a studio hand in the "attic" recording studio in Liverpool. After two years of training with such bands as the la's and the real people he decided to follow a boy hood dream and join the armed forces.Phil joined the RCT regiment in 1990 in which he was based in bunde located in northen Germany. He saw campaign service in Northan Ireland twice for which he made the comment of "I thought them manc's and scousers hated each other untill i got to that place!".A comment he than made again after a stint in Bosnia. After the death of his close army friend just days after he had signed up to stay in the army for another 5 years he decided he would leave the army as soon as he could in 1996.

Phil soon went back to a childhood love of drums in which he joined Duncan ross to form DeltaRest and Also played drums for the other. Phil also roadied for clipper cartel

[edit] testicular cancer awareness

After having two types of testicular cancer in 2003

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 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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