Sky Sports host Jo Wilson has announced she has been diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer.
The presenter, who is 37, has hosted on Sky Sports since 2015. She’s currently undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy after being diagnosed.
Speaking to OK! Magazine, Jo said she broke down in tears to her husband Dan after doctors delivered the news. She said: “I cried while a lovely nurse held my hand.
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“Then I cried to Dan, and he was quite shocked because he didn’t really think it would be cancer. You’re desperately hoping there’s a chance it might not be.
“I said to the doctor ‘Am I going to die?’. ‘You’re not going to die’, he reassured me - ‘It’s very treatable, and it’s very curable’.”
Jo, from Perth, has been due to go for a smear test while pregnant with her daughter Mabel, who is now almost two-years-old, but after a traumatic forceps delivery where they both caught sepsis, the presenter delayed going in. She urged other women to not delay getting their smear test done, adding that she finds it ‘terrifying’ that she waited so long.
The gruelling treatment is already affecting Jo, who told OK! that she has already lost a stone. She went for her smear test in June, which showed signs of cancer.
A month later further tests showed the TV host was battling 3b cervical cancer, which had spread to two of her lymph nodes. Jo fears the success rate of the treatment, saying there is 70 percent success rate - though her mind is on the 30 percent chance it might not work.
After going public with diagnosis during Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month, Jo says she is ‘hanging onto the positives’ and has to believe ‘everything is in my favour’. She’s hoping that speaking out will raise awareness, and hopes she might be able to save another’s life by doing so.
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