Davina McCall shared an important message to Channel 4 Stand Up To Cancer viewers as she continues to face her own cancer diagnosis
Davina McCall was on the verge of tears as she shared a powerful message for Stand Up To Cancer. The presenter, who revealed she underwent surgery for breast cancer recently, looked emotional as she presented a live Stand Up To Cancer show as she met patients at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge.
And after speaking to patients about their own journey, Davina shared an important message. She said: “Don’t be afraid, it is so important to look after your own body. For you, and for the people that love you.”
Davina, 58, previously explained that she found a lump in her breast after checking herself and got it examined. She said: “It was very, very small, so I got it very, very early, which is incredibly lucky. But I am so relieved to have had it removed and to know that it hasn’t spread.”
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And now viewers of the Channel 4 show have been left emotional throughout the show – and headed to social media to let their feeling be known. As a number of patients spoke to the presenter, the stories hit home for many viewers.
The one-off live cancer clinic was following patients at pivotal moments from test results to treatment. One user wrote: “So wonderful to see @ThisisDavina live from Addenbrooks for #StandUpToCancer – my whole family is forever grateful to the amazing @CUH_NHS NHS team who saved my mum’s life when she was diagnosed with cancer.”
Another said: “#StandUpToCancer just donated as cancer has touched many peoples lives including my own both my granddads passed away of this horrible disease,” and they added a heartbroken emoji.
It comes after King Charles III gave his own update on his condition. The King revealed his cancer treatment schedule is being reduced in the New Year. The news comes almost two years after his diagnosis.
Charles, 77, has been receiving weekly treatment since learning he had an undisclosed type of cancer in early 2024. And in a message to viewers on the Channel 4 show, the monarch gave a significant update about his cancer journey while stressing the importance of cancer screening programmes to help early diagnosis of the disease.
In his pre-recorded message, which he created just over a week ago in the morning room at Clarence House, he said: “Today I am able to share with you the good news that thanks to early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to ‘doctors’ orders’, my own schedule of cancer treatment can be reduced in the New Year.
“This milestone is both a personal blessing and a testimony to the remarkable advances that have been made in cancer care in recent years; testimony that I hope may give encouragement to the fifty per cent of us who will be diagnosed with the illness at some point in our lives.”
He went on to speak of his own experience of feeling overwhelmed when receiving a cancer diagnosis. However, Charles, who was wearing a Stand Up To Cancer lapel pin, used his address to stress the importance of early detection, saying it’s ‘troubling’ people aren’t taking up cancer screening available to them.
Strictly star Amy Dowden also provided a candid update on her cancer journey. The professional dancer she shared her heartbreak about motherhood.
The Strictly Come Dancing star said: “A cancer diagnosis changes you forever… I’ve been put into menopause… I don’t know if I’ll ever have the honour of becoming a mum which I desperately want to… Five weeks ago I have another mastectomy…
“I’m so grateful for another shot of live, to be able get back on the dance floor… I’m so grateful for my medical team, the doctors and nurses who have kept me alive. A cancer diagnosis changes you forever, I’m no longer the person I was and that’s not by choice.”
Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4, to check if you are eligible for NHS / PHA cancer screening go to www.screeningchecker.co.uk’
Source: Mirror
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