We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our In a new interview with The Times, George admitted that doctors told him back in April that the cancer has now affected his lungs.But he acknowledged that the fact the word "terminal" has not been mentioned provided some relief.He told the publication: "My doctors have never used the word 'chronic' or 'cure' about my cancer.“They’ve never used the word 'terminal' either.
The BBC's health editor Hugh Pym said: "Great to see George Alagiah back on air on 6pm news after cancer treatment - welcome back!" Since 3 December 2007, he has been the presenter of the BBC News at Six and was previously the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News since its launch on 1 February 2010. "George described feeling "lucky" for only having experienced coronavirus in a "mild way".The newsreader added that his wife Fran also experienced symptoms which See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, GEORGE ALAGIAH, who’s best known for presenting BBC News, revealed he’s “in a sort of limbo” at the moment in regards to his health. BBC journalist George Alagiah has confirmed his bowel cancer has spread to his lungs.
order back issues and use the historic Daily Express "And in some ways, I think that we, those of us living with cancer, are stronger because we kind of know what it is like to go into something where the outcomes are uncertain. Posted at 16:49 18 Apr 2019 George Alagiah has told of his feelings of guilt at using disabled toilets when he was not visibly disabled but had a stoma bag attached to his stomach.. … I’ve always said to my oncologist ‘Tell me when I need to sort my affairs out’, and he’s not told me that, but what he did tell me is that the cancer is now in a third organ. I’m living with cancer like lots and lots of other people.
Had they had screening at 50, like they do in Scotland…” he told The Sunday Times.“I would have been screened at least three times and possibly four by the time I was 58 and this would have been caught at the stage of a little polyp: snip, snip.”Bowel cancer is one of the most common types of cancer diagnosed in the UK, according to the NHS.According to the health body there are three symptoms to look out for:While these symptoms don’t definitely mean a person has bowel cancer, if you have one or more of these symptoms, and they’re persistent for more than four weeks, see your GP.All men and women aged 60 to 74 are invited to carry out a faecal occult blood test as part of bowel cancer screening.
(Getty) BBC News At Six presenter George Alagiah … BBC's Alagiah on living with coronavirus and cancer Jump to media player Newsreader George Alagiah says he caught the virus between cancer treatments and had mild symptoms.