Star of iconic TV show Only Fools and Horses, Patrick Murray, said he was told he wouldn't make Christmas when he was diagnosed with cancer.
The Mickey actor from the hit show announced his illness earlier during the last week of January.
And now he has told the Sun newspaper: “The first primary diagnosis was actually a lot worse than what it was.
“It showed up a lot of red flags that I had a tumour on my liver and three metastatics - which is cancer of the blood.
“I was told it looks like I wouldn’t make Christmas.”
The actor added: “But the PET scan did show there was a tumour in my lung so I had that removed in October. They caught it early and right now I’m on chemo to make sure it doesn’t come back. If I left it a couple of months later, I could have been in real trouble. I probably wouldn’t be here now.”
Birmingham Live reports how earlier this week, he tweeted: “Naturally I wanted to keep my own health problems private, but failing to fully endorse this ad would be selfish.
“Thanks to my ultrascan I have a fighting chance.
“It showed my organs needed further investigation and tumours were spotted.
“This led to a PET scan which covers a much larger area. To my wonderful surprise these lesions were not cancerous but the scan did find an early-stage cancerous tumour in my lung. This has since been removed."
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