Sky Sports presenter Jo Wilson has been recognized with stage three most cancers cervical most cancers – with the illness having unfold to 2 of her lymph nodes.
The Scottish broadcaster, 37, informed OK! journal she obtained the analysis this summer season and is present process life-saving radiotherapy and chemotherapy remedy.
Speaking out throughout Gynaecological Cancer Awareness month, Wilson stated she was sharing her expertise within the hope it’d “save just one other life”.
“The last person in the public eye with cervical cancer was Jade Goody,” she informed the journal.
“After Jade’s death, more women went for smear tests, but now one in three who are eligible don’t go. I really want to change that.
“If I can save just one other life by being open about my battle then it’s worth speaking out.”
Wilson revealed she went for a smear check in June and after additional exams it was confirmed the following month that she had stage 3b cervical most cancers.
She stated she beforehand saved updated together with her smear exams however after a traumatic forceps supply together with her daughter Mabel in September 2020, from which they each caught sepsis, she delayed going for a check as she feared “being prodded down there”.
The presenter, who has labored on Sky Sports News since 2015, recalled that the physician has confirmed her most cancers is “very treatable” and “very curable” which is a truth she says she tries to “hold onto”.
She admitted that the “lack of control can be quite difficult” because the remedy will both work or it won’t however she has stated she is “trying to live in the present and get this through”.
Wilson added: “It’s terrifying to think I could have put it off even longer. Cervical cancer can be quite slow growing but it’s different for everybody.
“I don’t want anyone to have to go through what I am right now.”
Additional reporting by PA.
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