Former Top of the Pops presenter Sarah Cawood has shared the devastating news that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
The 50-year-old rose to fame in the 90s hosting the likes of Live & Kicking and The Girlie Show - and has revealed that she was told she has stage one breast cancer last month.
However, the form of cancer she has is not aggressive, writes The Mirror.
Sarah lives with her husband Andy Merry and their son and daughter Hunter, ten, and Autumn, nine.
Revealing how she discovered the news, she told The Sun : "It was my first ever routine mammogram and I got a letter back saying they couldn’t give me my screening result back yet.
“So I had another mammogram and an ultrasound and then they said, ‘We’re going to biopsy you’. That’s where they take a bit of tissue from your boob.”
She was later told that the lump inside her breast was not just a cyst and feared the worst, worrying that it could be an aggressive form.
“I did the lying in bed at night, not watching my children grow up thing," Sarah said. "I always think cancer seems like a slow death. It’s like being chucked out of the party early.”
Revealing that she had gone to find out the results with her husband, she was relieved to find out that the cancer wasn't an aggressive form.
"Nobody cried, it wasn’t very dramatic," she said. "It’s just a lumpectomy, radio-therapy, then a drug called Tamoxifen, which is a hormone blocker, for five to ten years.”
Following her diagnosis, Sarah has had to come off HRT, which she takes for the menopause, and has said that she is feeding the effect of it.
While she said that her mood appears to be OK, she finds her brain fog "annoying" and that she has forgotten her daughter's name twice.
Sarah also spoke about how she wished she had shown off her boobs more when she was younger, but that her boyfriend at the time, Bluetones guitarist Adam Devlin, had held her back from doing so.
“Back then, the way to really get your profile built up was to do lads’ mags shoots and I didn’t," she said. "Partly because of Adam 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."
Adding that they were the "best boobs", she quipped that she "should have got them out" as they were "better than Denise Van Outen's".
"I could be presenting Strictly Come Dancing now," she quipped. "But that didn’t happen and I don’t have any regrets."
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