Former BBC star Giles Coren, 55, announces shock prostate cancer diagnosis

Giles Coren, a BBC nutrient professional and radio prima has revealed that helium has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

In an nonfiction for The Times, Giles revealed: ‘In the precise week that it was announced connected the beforehand leafage of The Times that prostate crab is present the commonest crab successful England … I person been diagnosed with it!’

The writer elaborate the dilatory process of getting diagnosed aft his doctors recovered a malignant tumour.

Giles explained that his doc reassured him that helium had a ‘slow cancer’ that is incredibly common.

Although helium initially refused to person a biopsy, helium past agreed to acquisition further investigating arsenic his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) trial increased, which tin beryllium a unsafe sign.

He was told that helium had ”less than a millimetre [of cancer] successful conscionable 3 of the 21 samples.’ Which does not yet request treatment, but does request to beryllium intimately monitored.

Giles is champion known for being a British columnist, nutrient writer, and tv and vigor presenter.

He appeared connected respective nutrient shows including Gordon Ramsay’s The F Word, and presented connected The Supersizers and Back successful Time for Dinner.

From 2017 until 2022 helium besides presented Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby.

The writer is besides the elder member of journalist Victoria Coren Mitchell, who is joined to comedian David Mitchell. His begetter was besides the precocious writer Michael Coren.

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