Davina McCall has announced she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer – which comes a year after she underwent emergency surgery to remove a brain tumour.
Sharing the news on Instagram, the TV presenter, 58, told fans she found a lump a few weeks ago.
She began by saying: ‘Hello. I am talking about this because I think it may help someone, and this is what I always do.
‘I just wanted to tell you that I have had breast cancer. I found a lump a few weeks ago and it came and went, but then I was working on The Masked Singer and Lorraine Kelly’s TV show had put signs on the back of all the doors saying to “check your breasts” and every time I went for a wee, I did that.
‘And it was still there. One morning I saw it in the mirror and thought I needed to get it looked at, so I had a biopsy and found out that it was indeed breast cancer.’
Davina then went on to say she had it taken out in a lumpectomy nearly three weeks ago.
‘The margins were very small so I got it very, very early, which is incredibly lucky. But I am so relived to have had it removed and to know that it hasn’t spread. My lymph nodes were clear and I didn’t have any removed. All I am going to do now is have five days of radiotherapy in January, as kind of an insurance policy, and then I am on my journey to try and stop it ever coming back.’
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