Emmerdale's Tony Audenshaw shares early pancreatic cancer signs his wife first noticed

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Emmerdale’s Tony Audenshaw has opened up on the “devastating” discovery of his wife, Ruth's, pancreatic cancer. The actor, best known for playing Bob Hope in the ITV soap, spoke with Holly Willoughby and Phil Schofield about the harrowing events.He explained that he is now raising money for Pancreatic Cancer UK by getting on his bike and peddling around the capital.Chatting about his wife, he discussed how her healthy lifestyle had possibly hidden the symptoms of the disease.“She was a really fit person”, he said. “She ran, she cycled and it was part of that which masked the symptoms.”After eventually getting a diagnosis, Ruth eventually had an operation, but by that time it was too late and cancer had reacher other parts of her body.“It was devastating because it was about two months after the operation we learned it had spread already”.Speaking about the early signs of pancreatic cancer in his wife, Tony said: “She did a lot of running and it could have been dehydration but other than that she was feeling a bit tired, but our daughter had just gone travelling so it could have had something to do with that.“But she went to the doctors, this dark urine happened for a few days and they thought it might be a urine infection.“They took tests and it wasn’t, by this time she’d gone yellow herself and her poo had gone a different colour.