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Subscriber only Colin Burke was the fittest he d ever been when he was first diagnosed with cancer. The news came as a total shock to the then 57-year-old, when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2005. I ve always played sport and I was swimming at the Australian titles at the time, Mr Burke said. I was probably the fittest I ve ever been in my life and it just came out of the blue. I asked the surgeon why? and he said I was just unlucky ⦠it was sobering. The cancer troubles did not stop there. Colin Burke has battled three different types of cancer.