Such sad news.
BBC Newsreader George Alagiah has been given a cancer diagnosis which statistically means he has less than a 10 percent chance of surviving the next five years.
George has undergone 17 rounds of chemotherapy and five operations after being diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014. The disease has since spread to his liver and lymph nodes and is now at stage four.
The 62-year old discovered that the cancer had returned just before Christmas 2017 and he is now supporting a campaign to have more frequent screenings for the illness in England and Wales, as they do in Scotland.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, George said: “Had I been screened, I could have been picked up. Had they had screening at 50, like they do in Scotland … 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 …
“We know that if you catch bowel cancer early, survival rates are tremendous. I have thought: why have the Scots got it and we don’t?”
