Sarah Cawood has been diagnosed with stage one breast cancer.
Sarah Cawood diagnosed with breast cancer
The 50-year-old TV presenter says she has the "the Carlsberg of breast cancers", and feels "really lucky" that she only has a "very small cancerous lump".
A lump in her breast was discovered in follow-up tests after her first ever routine mammogram, and despite fearing she may have an "aggressive" form of cancer, she ended up being "demob happy" with the result.
She said: "The surgeon went, ‘Can you see that? That’s a very small cancerous lump’. And I went, ‘Oh, OK, is it aggressive?’.
"And she said, ‘No’. And I went, ‘Brilliant’. I was demob happy. I was like, ‘OK, so easily fixed?’, and she was like, ‘Yes, not really much of a problem’.
"Nobody cried, it wasn’t very dramatic. It’s just a lumpectomy, radio-therapy, then a drug called Tamoxifen, which is a hormone blocker, for five to 10 years.
"It really is the Carlsberg of breast cancers. If you have to have it, this is the one to have. I feel really lucky. There are people that really are up s*** creek without a paddle, who have cancer, and I am not that person."
The former 'Live and Kicking' host - who has son Hunter, 10, and nine-year-old daughter Autumn with husband Andy Merry - admits she regrets not doing more lads' magazine shoots to build her profile early on in her career, because the star insists she has "epic" breasts and claims they are "better than Denise van Outen’s".
She added to The Sun newspaper: "Back then, the way to really get your profile built up was to do lads’ mags shoots and I didn’t. Partly because of [her then-boyfriend] Adam [Devlin] and partly out of some weird sense of propriety.
"Like, I’m not going to get my boobs out to get ahead. Why the f*** not? My boobs were epic. They still are.
"They were honestly the best boobs — better than Denise van Outen’s, I’d say. So I should have got them out. Why didn’t I? I was really conflicted. If I’d done more lads’ mags shoots, my profile would have been higher, I’d have been offered more of the high-profile jobs.
"Who knows? I could be presenting 'Strictly Come Dancing' now. But that didn’t happen and I don’t have any regrets. Because otherwise I’d never have met my husband Andy. It’s all Sliding Doors, isn’t it?"