- Davina McCall presented Cancer Clinic Live as part of Stand Up To Cancer.
- She became emotional when a stage four cancer patient showed concern for her, following her own diagnosis.
- Davina recently underwent surgery for breast cancer just a year after having a benign brain tumour removed.
Davina McCall was moved to tears by a kind fellow cancer patient asking how she was live on television tonight after her own experience with the disease.
The former Big Brother presenter, 58, presented Cancer Clinic Live as part of Stand Up To Cancer, just days after her surprise wedding to hairdresser Michael Douglas.
It was a groundbreaking documentary broadcast live from a one-off cancer clinic at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge as part of the fundraising show.
Cameras were following real patients and their families through pivotal moments from test results to treatment, which hit close to home for Davina, who underwent surgery to treat breast cancer herself earlier this year.
She also lost her sister to lung cancer.
In an especially emotional moment, Davina was speaking with patient Stuart as he waited to hear how his treatment was progressing.
Despite dealing with a stage four bowel cancer diagnosis – and revealing just beforehand that he wasn’t expecting to have still been alive this Christmas – Stuart said he hoped Davina ‘was alright too’.
This moment of compassion clearly touched Davina, who was moved to tears by his thoughtfulness.
Taken aback before grabbing his arm, she said in a shaky voice as she fought back tears: ‘Can I just say, thank you for asking me that.’
‘I can’t believe, after everything you’ve been through,’ she added in wonder, as they shared a hug.
‘I’m really good, thank you,’ she responded with a massive smile.
The TV star had opened the programme live too by telling viewers about her experience.
‘Earlier this year, I found a lump in my breast. It quickly led to tests and scans and then the word that no one ever wants to hear, cancer,’ she recalled.
‘It was found early and surgeons were able to remove it. But not everyone gets that chance. I took my sister Caroline to A&E, she fainted and she couldn’t get up.
‘They gave her a brain scan but then they scanned her chest, and I couldn’t understand why. It turned out it was late-stage lung cancer.’
‘She died seven weeks later,’ Davina said in a wobbling voice, on the verge of tears.
‘I was holding her hand. And that’s why early diagnosis matters to me.’
Davina’s own experience with cancer also made her ‘really angry’, after being diagnosed with breast cancer just a year after undergoing surgery to remove a benign brain tumour, known as a colloid cyst.
She had called her brain tumour diagnosis and craniotomy surgery the ‘hardest’ time in her life, so this second health battle was a huge blow.
In November, the broadcaster revealed in an Instagram video that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and urged others to ‘check yourself regularly’ after she had a ‘very, very small’ lump removed.
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Ahead of the programme the Masked Singer host spoke to SU2C co-presenter Adam Hills of her early breast cancer diagnosis and said: ‘I am really good. I mean it feels super important to be part of Stand Up To Cancer again, especially now.’
Davina has previously said that she will be undergoing five days of radiotherapy in January ‘as kind of an insurance policy, and then I am on my journey to try and stop it ever coming back’.
Stand Up to Cancer is available to catch up on via Channel 4.
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