Ground Force star Tommy Walsh has given a cancer update six months after he revealed he was having tests on a tumour doctors found in his lung.
The news, shared in at the end of last year, came just days after he was axed from the popular BBC show, Homes Under the Hammer.
Tommy was originally diagnosed with cancer in 2022 after finding a lump in his throat. In November 2023, he said doctors had found a tumour in his lung. Now, Tommy has revealed the cancer returned underneath his lung earlier this year.
As a result, he is undergoing “cutting edge” treatment to fight it.
Tommy Walsh shares cancer update
The 67-year-old TV personality detailed the radiation treatment he is receiving from the NHS. He told The Mirror: “My cancer came back earlier this year. They found it again under the lung. So I had to have this new treatment called SABR. What it is is radiotherapy which targets it to an exact spot without damaging the organs around it. So they used that and it shrunk.”
Tomm added: “It is now not anywhere else. It is going away. Because it is shrinking it will shrink down to nothing and disappear. I will then just have to have annual checks. It has worked for me really well.”
My cancer came back earlier this year. They found it again under the lung.
Tommy also stated that he felt “lucky” that the tumour wasn’t found inside his lung. He said: “They thought it was in the lung and then I would have been in trouble. Surgery would have been serious where they cut you open and take a big lump of bone out of the rib and then they would have to put a piece of metal mesh in to stop the lung falling out of the hole. So I did not want that but we had that as a back-up. The SABR treatment has worked and I am healthy so I have not been in any pain.”
Tommy Walsh’s health history
Tommy initially made the announcement of the discovery of a tumour on his lung whilst on stage at a conference of The Swallows Head & Neck Cancer charity, on November 27 2023.
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