This Morning agony aunt Deidre Sanders has issued an update on her cancer.
The beloved ITV star, 79, recently revealed her breast cancer had returned after two years and that she would be receiving surgery to remove a tumour, followed by treatment. But the presenter is feeling "optimistic" after undergoing some "fantastic treatment" from the NHS.
The star, famed for her Dear Deidre segment on This Morning, updated viewers on Tuesday (October 22) when she returned to the ITV show. She said: "I will find out if they got it all [the cancer] in a couple of weeks time.
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"I have got everything crossed. I was told it was a tiny, tiny cancer so I am optimistic."
Deidre said it was "good to be back" in the studio after wrapping up her advice segment. Host Ben Shephard wished her well, saying: "Let us know when you get your results."
The presenter had surgery to remove the cancerous cells from her right breast after being diagnosed with the disease in 2022. She told viewers she hadn't been for a mammogram for nearly 10 years and urged people to get their breasts checked regularly.
Earlier this month, she revealed her cancer had come back. Deidre explained she was "shocked" by its return but was feeling well.
She said: "Unfortunately, I’ve got to have a lumpectomy followed by radiotherapy. I feel lucky, it’s been caught early and the treatment is happening very rapidly.
"This is all on the NHS so I think I am so lucky. It could be so much worse. To be honest, the symptoms I had the first time were a coincidence and not actually a symptom of the cancer as it turns out.
"An efficient GP put me on the cancer pathway and I got a very rapid check and treatment. I’ve felt well, I haven’t felt tired or run down. I couldn’t feel anything, it’s very tiny so there’s nothing to feel. It’s purely down to the mammogram which showed it up. I had an ultrasound and a biopsy and it revealed it was cancer."
She added: "I was shocked. I felt fine. I was so taken aback, I wasn’t expecting it at all", she said, adding: "My big point about this is that on the NHS system, I’m not criticising it, the call for mammograms stop when you are 70."
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