Actress Malandra Burrows has openly spoken about her cancer journey and praised her pet dog Teddy who alerted her to a lump on her breast before she was given diagnosis. She explained how her border terrier pup had been showing "bizarre" behaviour and eventually hurt her chest, forcing her to check if she'd been bruised.
The former Emmerdale star, who is best known for playing Kathy Glover in the ITV Yorkshire soap for 16 years, revealed in April that she had been diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. The 56-year-old revealed on Wednesday morning's Lorraine that she has now had three "major operations" and will undergo radiotherapy saying her prognosis and treatment "changes all the time".
Telling host Lorraine how Teddy helped in getting her diagnosis, Malandra said: "We were watching a movie together and she literally wanted to lie on my chest, she'd never done that before. Nuzzling, sort of headbutting me and... sorry I get kind of emotional talking about it.
