20 September 2023 , 12:40
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Radio star Chris Evans announced he has been given the "all-clear" from skin cancer, eight weeks after his initial diagnosis.
The 57-year-old Virgin Radio UK Breakfast Show host shared with his listeners in August about his early-stage skin cancer diagnosis and reassured them that it was "as treatable as cancer can possibly be" due to its early detection. And now, Chris told his listeners he is officially clear of skin cancer.
On Wednesday, he revealed he received an e-mail concerning his removed cancer and how it cost him a night's sleep. He explained: "I didn't sleep, hardly at all last night ... two or three hours. A good night, I'll get six, four or five and because I wake up every 90 minutes for my circadian rhythm, and I surrender to that now, actually I look forward to going back to sleep three times a night because that's where I live."
Chris Evans shared the exciting news with fans (PA Wire/PA Images)He added: "But I never thought for a second you could lose a night's sleep because of an email like this." He shared the contents of the email with co-presenters Vassos Alexander and Rachel Horne. Vassos read the email, which was from the consultant plastic surgeon, live on air.
The email contained the uplifting news: "I have forwarded the pathology report. It is excellent news. There is no residual disease. You have the all-clear." In a candid revelation, Chris shared: "I had a phone conversation with my dermatologist, and she told me that, obviously, the freckle that had moved, metastasised, was malignant, because the biopsy had come back, and that I would need treatment, and would have to have it removed. So we did, and that was last Thursday."
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He added: "And so, at quarter-to-four last Thursday, I had cancer and at quarter-to-five, I didn't. And I just found that out last night. And that's because time is your biggest weapon against it, if you have an abundance of it, and its biggest weapon against you if you have a lack of it."
With a newfound perspective, Chris urged listeners to take their health seriously, telling fans: "If you're worried about anything, just bear in mind the fact that eight weeks ago I was diagnosed with cancer and now I don't have it at all. At all. And that's why you just need to attend to things.
"And it's really tough because for years I was the guy who wouldn't go anywhere near that. But you know, times have changed, thank God." Chris, a household name in radio, made a significant career move in January 2019 when he switched to Virgin Radio after leaving his long-running breakfast programme on BBC Radio 2 the previous year.
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