Chris Evans: Radio DJ reveals skin cancer diagnosis

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By Paul Glynn

Entertainment reporter

DJ Chris Evans has revealed helium has been diagnosed with tegument cancer.

The 57-year-old announced the quality connected his Virgin Radio amusement connected Monday, urging others to get themselves checked.

He told listeners helium was tested for the illness aft his "angel" of a masseur recovered a people connected his shin and that it had been "caught arsenic aboriginal arsenic possible".

It comes 8 years aft the erstwhile BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 broadcaster was fixed the all-clear pursuing a prostate crab scare.

"I've conscionable got to speech concisely astir my biopsy for the tegument crab issue," helium said. "So the champion quality that I got whilst I was distant is that it was a affirmative test, truthful I person tested affirmative for tegument cancer.

"Obviously amended quality would person been [that it was] negative. But the crushed it's large quality is due to the fact that they've caught it arsenic aboriginal arsenic they can, arsenic aboriginal arsenic is possible."

He added that helium had a benignant of tegument crab called melanoma.

"It's arsenic treatable arsenic crab tin beryllium to the grade that they telephone it 'stage zero'," Evans added. He said the "mark connected his leg" would beryllium removed connected 14 September.

"I can't tally for a period afterwards truthful I'm going to bash thing but tally until then," helium joked. "Is that ok?'

He said helium had thanked his masseur Dee for "potentially redeeming my life", arsenic good arsenic urging listeners to "get yourself checked".

"Just cheque yourself for stuff, arsenic you get older especially, connected your skin, connected your bits and your bobs," said the DJ.

"Just support checking due to the fact that the biggest limb successful your arsenal, successful our our corporate arsenal... is aboriginal detection. And truthful delight bash that."

Most tegument cancers are caused by prima damage. People with paler oregon just tegument are astatine higher hazard of harm due to the fact that they person little of the protective pigment melanin successful their skin.

People with immoderate tegument code tin get tegument crab though. Using sunscreen tin trim your risk.

What is melanoma?

Not the astir communal oregon lone benignant of tegument cancer, but 1 of the astir serious. Left untreated, it tin dispersed to different organs successful the body
About 16,700 radical a twelvemonth are diagnosed with it
Caused by abnormal tegument cells that turn retired of power owed to DNA damage. Intense vulnerability to UV tin trigger this damage
Dr Bav Shergill, of the British Association of Dermatologists, said: "While melanoma is overmuch much communal successful older people, it does hap successful young people. In fact, tegument crab is 1 of the astir communal forms of crab for teenagers and young adults to beryllium diagnosed with."
You should interaction your doc immediately. If moles are itchy oregon bleed oregon person irregular shapes, these are informing signs
Most melanomas look successful places you tin see, nevertheless immoderate tin hap successful your nose, mouth, anus, and vagina (mucosal melanoma), portion others tin look successful your oculus (uveal melanoma)

Evans, 1 of the biggest vigor DJs successful the state since the 1990s, bid an affectional farewell to his long-running, fashionable Radio 2 amusement backmost successful 2018.

The pursuing twelvemonth helium went connected to assistance Virgin Radio interruption the 1 cardinal listener obstruction with his caller show.