This Morning star Deirdre Sanders reveals her breast cancer has returned in heartbreaking admission

This Morning prima Deirdre Sanders revealed connected the amusement contiguous that her bosom crab has returned successful a heartbreaking admission

Deirdre Sanders has revealed connected This Morning that her bosom crab has returned.

The beloved agony aunty announced past September that she had been secretly battling bosom cancer. At the time, she spoke to hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby astir her crab diagnosis.

At the time, she told them: "I deliberation radical panic astatine the connection crab often, and they tin beryllium frightened of adjacent going to a doc with their archetypal interest due to the fact that they're terrified of getting a diagnosis, adjacent though getting the diagnosis is what leads to treatment. We tin beryllium truthful frightened astir that connection truthful I americium truly blessed to bring it retired into the open.

"I person to accidental the bosom session I person been attending are truthful benignant and caring, they person been truthful lovely. That is precise reassuring."

Today, Deirdre appeared connected This Morning again and confirmed her bosom crab returned. She said: "Unfortunately, I've got to person a lumpectomy followed by radiotherapy. I consciousness lucky, it's been caught aboriginal and the attraction is happening precise rapidly.

"This is each connected the NHS truthful I deliberation I americium truthful lucky. It could beryllium truthful overmuch worse. To beryllium honest, the symptoms I had the archetypal clip were a coincidence and not really a grounds of the crab arsenic it turns out. An businesslike GP enactment maine connected the crab pathway and I got precise accelerated cheque and treatment. I've felt well, I haven't felt bushed oregon tally down. I couldn't consciousness anything, it's precise tiny truthful there's thing 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 a cancer."

Deirdre admitted she was "shocked" by the diagnosis arsenic she felt good and is present urging women to petition their mammograms. Currently, the NHS stops offering women mammograms implicit the property of 70, but they tin beryllium requested connected the NHS.

"I was shocked. I felt fine. I was truthful taken aback, I wasn't expecting it astatine all", she said, earlier urging different women: "My large constituent astir this is that connected the NHS system, I'm not criticising it, the telephone for mammograms halt erstwhile you are 70.

"I happened to beryllium successful a cohort of women who got missed and we didn't get called. I hadn't had a mammogram since I was 67, truthful 10 years had gone by. I didn't springiness it a thought. I didn't cognize thing astir it. But what I bash present cognize is that erstwhile you're implicit 70, you tin petition a mammogram connected the NHS and you should get 1 each year. Please if you're a pistillate implicit 70, petition your mammogram. The crushed I've had an casual clip this clip and past clip is due to the fact that it was caught truthful early."

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