A woman was diagnosed with four deadly brain tumours after suffering pins and needles — which she put down to her physically demanding job. Julie Swallow, 56, from Cambridgeshire, began suffering the irritating sensation in her right leg in 2021, and assumed she’d trapped a nerve from standing on her feet all day. One morning,
Watch: Davina McCall tears up on Comic Relief as she discusses brain surgery A tearful Davina McCall said the removal of a brain tumour was “the hardest thing” she had ever been through as she reflected on the experience during Red Nose Day’s 40th anniversary show. The TV presenter – who underwent surgery in November
TV presenter Davina McCall has said going back to work is “like the final piece of the jigsaw” during an interview on the BBC’s One Show. “I am so happy to be back,” she told presenters Alex Jones and Vernon Kay, inher first live interview since being operated on for a benign tumour. McCall said
Kirsty Gallacher has revealed the first symptom of her benign ear tumour and why she told doctors not to operate on her as she opened up about her health woes. The television presenter, 49, stepped away from her high-profile job on the breakfast show at GB News in December 2021 after a health scare. She discovered
Reuters Davina McCall appeared at the Brit Awards last weekend, four months after her brain surgery. Davina McCall says she will be friends for life with the neurosurgeon who removed her benign brain tumour. The TV presenter, 57, underwent surgery in November after a colloid cyst was found during a health check-up as part of
Medics have not only revealed the subtle signs of brain cancer but also which symptoms could indicate exactly where a tumour may be growing inside your skull. Cancerous brain tumours are the deadliest form of the disease for children and adults under 40 in Britain — claiming 5,300 lives every year, about 15 every day. Even
A 16 year-old has told of seeing her life flash before her eyes when she learned she was days away from death, due to an ultra-rare brain tumour that was destroying her organs. Alex Arkell, 16, from Stirling in Scotland, had no classic symptoms of the deadly growth — instead, suffering a bizarre bout of
Paul Glynn Culture reporter Getty Images In an emotional interview, McCall said she wrote letters to all of her children in case she did not pull through her surgery TV Presenter Davina McCall has spoken publicly for the first time about the “anger” she felt over the benign brain tumour that she was diagnosed with
Davina McCall has revealed she named her brain tumour, and even threw it a party. A rare colloid cyst in her brain, though benign, carried the risk of sudden death before the TV presenter underwent life-saving surgery in November 2024. The Big Brother star, 57, shared on her podcast Begin Again: ‘I called my brain
A lecturer who was told by doctors that his short temper and anti-social behaviour was ‘lockdown depression’, was actually battling a brain tumour. Richard West, 64, became anti-social, short tempered and forgetful when Covid restrictions lifted in 2021. He visited his GP on several occasions where he was given medication for anxiety. But after he suffered a