Gyles Brandreth has revealed his grandson’s cancer diagnosis came as a "shock to the system", admitting he had previously considered the disease "something that happens to unlucky middle-aged people". The television personality and podcast host described his horror when Kitt was diagnosed at just 15 months old in April 2017.
The discovery was made by Kitt’s parents, Brandreth’s daughter Saethryd and her Army veteran husband Mark, who found a pea-shaped lump near his stomach during a nappy change. Initially, a GP suggested the lump was likely a cyst or a hernia. However, subsequent tests confirmed Kitt had rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue sarcoma that affects fewer than 60 children in the UK annually.
