Sky Sports presenter Jo Wilson has revealed that she has been diagnosed with stage 3 cervical cancer.
The 37-year-old, who has hosted Sky Sports since 2015, said that she's currently undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment after being diagnosed this summer, writes The Mirror. Back in June, Jo had gone for a routine smear test and the results detected signs of cancer.
One month later further tests showed that she was battling 3b cervical cancer with it having spread to two of her lymph nodes. Jo, who is proud mum to 23-month-old daughter Mabel, said she broke down in tears to her husband Dan after doctors delivered the news.
"I cried while a lovely nurse held my hand. 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," Jo told OK! Magazine.
"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 had been due a smear test while she had been pregnant with Mabel, but after a traumatic forceps delivery where they both caught sepsis, the presenter had delayed getting it done.
Jo spoke openly about her fears of the success rate of the treatment, saying while there is a 70% success rate, she thinks about the 30% chance it might not work.
The host, who has gone public with her diagnosis during Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month, says she is "hanging onto the positives" but has already lost a stone due to the gruelling effect the treatment is having on her body.
The mother-of-on says she finds it "terrifying" she could have put off her smear test even longer as she urged women the importance of them.
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