Davina McCall breast cancer: TV star reveals diagnosis one year after having brain tumour removed
TV legend Davina McCall has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
The Masked Singer and My Mum, Your Dad presenter posted a video on Instagram this morning (Saturday, November 8) to tell her fans about her condition.
It comes one year after the 58-year-old underwent surgery to have a brain tumour removed.
McCall said: “I have had breast cancer. I found a lump a few weeks ago. It came and went but then I was working on The Masked Singer and Lorraine, the TV show, and Lorraine Kelly had put signs on the backs of all the doors saying ‘check your breasts’ and every time I went for a wee I did that.
“It was still there, and then one morning I saw myself in the mirror and thought ‘I’m going to get that looked at’.
“I had a biopsy. I found out it was indeed breast cancer and I had it taken out in a lumpectomy nearly three weeks ago.”
The TV presenter added that she caught the lump early, and the cancer had not spread to her lymph nodes. McCall will not need any chemotherapy, but will have five days of radiotherapy in January.
She added: “I just want to say a massive thank you to everybody at the Royal Marsden [Hospital]; all the nurses, doctors who have helped me, thank you for your support.
“Thanks to my family, to my brilliant kids, and an extra special thanks to Michael [Douglas, partner]. It’s been a lot. I was very angry when I found out, but I let go of that and I feel in a much more positive place now.
“I think my message is: get checked if you’re worried. Check yourself regularly. If you are due a mammogram, then get it done. I have dense breasts and I had a mammogram in August, and I was postponing the ultrasound - I just couldn’t find time to do it.
“Don’t do that. Get the ultrasound.”