Former Wakefield Trinity star Ray Price suffering from stage four cancer

Former Wakefield Trinity star Ray Price is suffering from stage four skin cancer.

In an even crueller twist of fate, his wife is also suffering from stage three melanoma, with the pair battling the disease together for the past two years.

Both Ray and wife Sandy will be participating in next Sunday’s Coolangatta Melanoma March to raise funds and awareness for skin cancer with the goal of of $1m to support a world-first personalised immunotherapy clinical trial for advanced melanoma patients.

Price, who played 25 games for Wakefield Trinity in between 1989 and 1990, said he and Sandy would receive result of a recent PET scan after the May 29 event.

“If you don’t get checked you can only get disappointed,” Price told the Daily Telegraph.

“Make sure you always get checked.

“We’re very positive about the tests. If you’re not positive you’re always down, and when your body is down you’re down,” Price said.

“My wife was told she would die if she didn’t have treatment, with my bowel cancer (diagnosis in 2006) I was told to pack my things up, you won’t see the week out.”

Price continued: “You’ve got to approach it wholehearted, you can’t afford to miss anything. If you don’t have a challenge all the time you’re lying in bed all the time.

“The reason we really went public is if we can save someone else’s life, if they do what we say or listen to us, we can save their lives.

“Melanoma a cow of a thing, but when you get it you get it treated early you can beat them.”