Chris Evans: I’m terribly fortunate after ‘second best’ pores and skin most cancers analysis
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hris Evans has spoken of how “extraordinarily lucky” he has been to get the “second best diagnosis” of pores and skin most cancers.
The radio DJ, 57, revealed on his Virgin Radio Breakfast Show on Monday that he was within the early levels of the situation following his masseuse recognizing an uncommon freckle on his decrease leg.
On Tuesday, Evans instructed Mike Graham’s programme on TalkTV that he was “not worried” about his analysis as it’s “not cancerous” and specialists seek advice from it as “stage zero” or “pre-cancer”.
He mentioned: “I wouldn’t be worried about it if I didn’t know about it but basically what’s happened is the way I frame it … is that I got the second best possible diagnosis.”
Evans will now have the pre-cancerous patch eliminated subsequent month after which a pores and skin graft on his leg, he additionally mentioned.
Evans mentioned he selected to discuss the situation as if folks within the public eye “can be useful ever in this job of ours or in life in general then we should be”.
The former BBC Radio 1 and a couple of presenter additionally mentioned: “There are people with a thousands of times worse diagnosis, and they don’t even know about it. The thing about all cancers is that in the early stages of them they don’t affect you.
“You just have it, there’s nothing wrong with you, zero, as other people who have had similar experiences will testify.
“The biggest weapon you have against this, this and other conditions, is time. And the biggest weapon they have against you is also time.
“So their biggest weapon against you is your lack of time or the lateness of your detection and your biggest weapon against them is how early your detection is.”
Following a prostate most cancers scare, Evans was given the all-clear in 2015.
He mentioned: “The thing about skin cancer is it can go up, down, north, south, east, west and you can go down into (the body) as well so I’m more grateful today than I’ve ever been for anything.
“I feel extraordinarily lucky, genuinely. I’m not saying this because it’s a cool thing to say but I’m very blessed and very happy to talk to you about it.”
Evans urged males to “check” themselves and descriptions the frequent locations “missed” embody the center of the again, which he mentioned is normally not noticed by those that are single, as “nobody sees it”.
He added: “The only thing to fear is inaction. I know that’s a big deal for some people, but if you’re not going to do it for yourself, do it for those who love you.”
In January 2019, Evans moved to Virgin Radio after leaving his long-running breakfast programme on BBC Radio 2 the earlier 12 months.
Aside from his radio work, Evans was additionally a presenter on Channel 4 morning present The Big Breakfast and comedy and music programme TFI Friday.