Dean Gaffney on bowel most cancers scare: I’m A Celebrity medical group saved my life
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ean Gaffney has mentioned there’s “no doubt” the fact present I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! saved his life after medical checks discovered indicators of bowel most cancers.
The former EastEnders actor, 45, appeared within the jungle in 2006 earlier than returning for the all-stars model of the present within the South African bush which aired on ITV this month.
But Gaffney has revealed that docs examined him in 2020 forward of a doable look on the present throughout Covid at Gwrych Castle in North Wales and located plenty of polyps in his massive gut that wanted rapid surgical procedure.
He instructed the Mirror newspaper: “There is no doubt I’m A Celeb and its medical team saved my life.
“I might not be here today if it wasn’t for them finding what they did.”
Gaffney was one of many 12 stars on standby to take the place of any campmate that caught Covid in 2020.
“I’m A Celebrity staff told me in September I’d got the job and I was called to a medical in October,” he mentioned.
“I thought nothing of it and did the routine blood tests. When it came back, it showed I was losing blood.
“They thought it might be anaemia or an iron deficiency. I thought they were being a bit over the top.
“Later that day the results showed they had found polyps which were massive. One was huge. I think 20mm, which is big for a polyp.”
Following the operation, Gaffney defined the docs have been “slightly angry”, asking why he had not observed blood in his stool.
The docs instructed him: “Had you not come to us today, in three years that could have turned to bowel cancer.
“You’ve been very lucky.”
The actor hopes to comply with within the footsteps of the BowelBabe fundraiser Dame Deborah James, who died age 40 in June final yr, and lift consciousness of the illness.
He mentioned: “Dame Deborah was an inspiration to so many. I’ve so much respect for her fight and the awareness she raised for bowel cancer.
“If I can do a small fraction of that for men, it’d make me very happy.”