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Davina McCall recognized with uncommon mind tumour

By Editorial Board Published November 15, 2024 7 Min Read
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Davina McCall recognized with uncommon mind tumour

Davina McCall has revealed she is present process a mind operation after medical doctors found a benign tumour.

The 57-year-old tv presenter stated in a video posted on Instagram that the tumour was a colloid cyst, which she described as “very rare”.

She stated the probabilities of having it had been “three in a million,” and he or she had found it just a few months in the past, after an organization supplied her a well being scan in return for giving a menopause discuss.

McCall admitted the consequence got here as a shock as she had thought she would “ace” the verify up, however as an alternative found she had a tumour.

She stated: “I slightly put my head in the sand for a while, and then I saw quite a few neurosurgeons, I got lots of opinions. I realised that I have to get it taken out.”

McCall described it as “big”, 14mm huge, including: “It needs to come out, because if it grows it would be bad.”

She defined that she would have it eliminated by way of a craniotomy, describing the process: “They go through the top of my head here and through the two halves of my brain to the middle.

“They get the cyst, take it out, empty it, and Bob’s your uncle.”

She added: “Say a prayer for me, I’m in good spirits”.

McCall, went on: “I’m OK. It’s been up and down. Obviously, we’ve been through a lot.”

She stated she can be in hospital “for around nine days”, however throughout her restoration, she can be “off my phone for a while”.

Joking and smiling, she urged followers “not to worry about me”, admitting, “I’m doing that enough!”

She went on to counter that, explaining: “I’m not worrying too much, and I am in a good space, and I have all the faith in the world in my surgeon and his team, and I’m handing the reins over to him. He knows what he’s doing, and I’m going to do the getting better bit after.”

She signed off saying, “see you on the other side”.

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McCall on the Nationwide Tv Awards this yr. Pic: PA

Celeb buddies had been fast to ship their help, with stars together with Rylan, Alan Carr and Holly Willoughby sending love.

In accordance with the NHS, non-cancerous mind tumours are slow-growing and unlikely to unfold, however are nonetheless severe and could be life-threatening.

What’s a benign mind tumour?

In accordance with the NHS web site, a benign (non-cancerous) mind tumour is a mass of cells that grows comparatively slowly within the mind.

They’re unlikely to unfold, however are nonetheless severe and could be life-threatening.

When efficiently eliminated, a tumour won’t normally return in any respect, but when it can’t be fully eliminated it could develop again, and so might be monitored utilizing scans or handled with radiotherapy.

Many individuals return to regular actions following profitable surgical procedure, however some are left with persistent issues, akin to seizures and difficulties with speech and strolling.

Non-cancerous mind tumours are extra frequent in individuals over the age of fifty, and signs embody complications, blackouts, behavioural adjustments and lack of consciousness.

Davina McCall says her tumour is a colloid cyst – which is made up of a gelatinous materials. Signs can embody headache, vertigo, reminiscence deficits, diplopia, behavioural disturbances, and in excessive circumstances, sudden dying.

Writing a submit alongside McCall’s video on her Instagram web page, her accomplice – hairdresser Michael Douglas – stated she was in “great shape” and in “very good hands”.

“The support of people is amazingly powerful,” he wrote. He stated he can be including “the odd update from her account” and stated she would learn the feedback when she was in a position to take action.

He additionally appeared within the video, making her chuckle and saying he would “have his eye on” the recovering star.

McCall with the first UK Big Brother winner Craig Phillips in 2000. Pic: PA

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McCall with the primary UK Large Brother winner Craig Phillips in 2000. Pic: PA

McCall rose to fame presenting on MTV within the mid-Nineties, and in a while Channel 4’s Streetmate, earlier than turning into a family identify because the host of Large Brother from 2000 to 2010.

She’s gone on to current programmes throughout the networks, and at present presents ITV relationship present My Mum, Your Dad.

Final yr, McCall was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) within the 2023 Birthday Honours for providers to broadcasting.

Lately, McCall has spoken commonly on girls’s well being and the consequences of menopause in a bid to interrupt taboos across the topic. Her 2022 ebook, Menopausing, received ebook of the yr on the British E book Awards.

The identical yr, McCall fronted the Channel 4 documentary Davina McCall: Intercourse, Thoughts And The Menopause, and advised the BBC that the perimenopausal signs brought about her difficulties multi-tasking and he or she thought-about that she had a mind tumour or Alzheimer’s illness on the time.

The presenter has beforehand raised cash for Most cancers Analysis UK by operating for Race For Life in honour of her late sister, Caroline Baday, who died from lung most cancers in 2012 on the age of fifty.

Married twice, McCall has three kids, two daughters and a son, along with her second husband, presenter Matthew Robertson.

She has lived with Douglas since 2022, they usually current a weekly life-style podcast collectively, Making The Reduce.

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