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This Morning star Deidre Sanders has said her breast cancer has returned two years after her first diagnosis.
The agony aunt, 79, said to her ‘surprise’ doctors found cancer during an annual check-up on today’s ITV show.
Explaining how she felt after the diagnosis, Deidre said: ‘This time, to be honest, shock because I felt fine. I was so taken aback I wasn’t expecting it at all.’
She said medics found a ‘tiny but malignant’ cancerous lump in her left breast after previously being treated for cancer in her right breast.
Deidre will now undergo a lumpectomy and radiotherapy treatment starting later this month.
She told hosts Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley: ‘I feel lucky. It has been caught early and the treatment is happening very rapidly. It’s all on the NHS.’
Deidre explained she experienced no symptoms before her second diagnosis and the cancer was ‘purely’ found because of a mammogram appointment.
She added: ‘My big point is that on NHS system – I’m not criticising it- the last call for mammography checks is 70.
‘If you’re over 70 you should request one and get one every three years. please if you’re a woman over 70 request your mammogram.’
The government outlines that when members of the public are 71 or older, they’re not automatically invited for breast screenings, despite being more at risk of getting breast cancer than younger women.
However, they can request one once every three years by contacting their local breast screening unit for an appointment.
Deidre said she decided to reveal her diagnosis on This Morning to raise awareness of mammograms and breast cancer.
She added: ‘That’s what I do I help people have difficult conversations and if I can’t have my own, [it’s a] poor show.’
Deidre revealed she had been diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time in 2022.
In the summer, Deidre said that she started ‘feeling achy’, realising that the tension she often feels in her shoulders had spread to her right breast.
Two weeks before going on holiday, she called her GP to air her concerns, before seeing an advanced nurse practitioner in person.
After undergoing a mammogram and an ultrasound scan, Deidre was booked in for a biopsy after her trip, discovering that the cells were malignant.
She later had surgery to remove the lump and radiotherapy.
The NHS states breast cancer symptoms can include a new lump or area of thickened tissue, a change in size in one or both breasts, discharges of fluid from nipples and a lump or swelling in either armpit.
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