TV star Mark Wright has announced he is in hospital after having a 12cm tumour removed in a cancer scare.
Speaking about the incident, he said he saw a doctor who passed it on as 'a fatty lump that doesn’t need any treatment'.
But he has explained how things developed with his health to fans in a post, BirminghamLive reports.
"One part of me wants to keep something like t his private and the other part is thinking, if I can help/potentially save 1 person, well…. this is the right thing to do," he said in his post.
"So here goes. I discovered a lump in my breast/armpit area. Not very big, but enough to cause concern and to be cautious enough to get it checked.
"I saw a doctor who passed it on as 'a fatty lump that doesn’t need any treatment' so I just left it.
"After some time the lump grew and began to bother me. I am someone that when it comes to life in general, I leave no stone unturned. When it involves health, this idiom quadruples.
"I saw another specialist who happens to be a breast consultant for a second opinion. He was certain after seeing an ultrasound scan that it was a LIPOMA (a BENIGN soft tissue tumour).
"However with it being rather large, he had a tiny bit of concern that it has/could turn in to a SARCOMA (a cancerous malignant tumour) however he was not 100% either way so to be more sure I had an MRI.
"From the result of the MRI, still this consultant did not want to rule out the worst because of the speed and the size of the growth.
"At this stage I moved on to a SARCOMA specialist. This specialist saw the scans around 10 days ago and today I was in theatre having this little git removed.
"His fast and incredible turn around was due to the fact he did not want to leave it any longer and wanted it out to prevent the rare risk of a LIPOMA turning into a sarcoma overtime.
"He also could not 100% confirm by the MRI that this was definitely a benign tumour and not something more sinister."
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