Lauren Laverne announces she’s been diagnosed with ‘smouldering myeloma’ 2 years after cancer recovery

Lauren Laverne smiling with lips closed
Lauren Laverne was given the ‘all clear’ for cancer in 2024 (Picture: Euan Cherry/Getty Images)

BBC presenter Lauren Laverne has announced she has been diagnosed with ‘smouldering myeloma’ two years after recovering from cancer.

The Desert Island Discs host was given the ‘all clear’ in November 2024.

Lauren, 48, took to Instagram with a health update in a post today to explain to her followers she has now been diagnosed with a ‘chronic condition’.

She said: ‘I’ve been diagnosed with something called smouldering myeloma (yes that is a weird name and no I’d never heard of it either).

‘It’s an asymptomatic blood and bone marrow disorder that in some people can develop into blood cancer.’

Continuing, she wrote: ‘Thankfully for me the risk of this happening in my case is pretty low.

Lauren Laverne has Smoulderinh Myeloma I call it Smouldering Mye. Sounds more like a drag queen.
The BBC host presents Desert Island Discs (Picture: laurenlaverne)

‘At the moment I feel OK and don’t need treatment.

‘Most people my age who have it have no idea – it tends to be cancer survivors like me who are diagnosed early as we’re so carefully monitored.

‘It has nothing to do with my previous illness or my recent surgery, it’s just one of those things.’

She captioned her post: ‘I call it Smouldering Mye. Sounds more like a drag queen.’

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