Deidre Sanders, the country's most famous agony aunt has shared the news that she has breast cancer, revealing her diagnosis after missing a mammogram due to a NHS error. putting her 'aches and pains' down to her age.
The 77-yerar-old, affectionately known to both newspaper readers and viewers of This Morning as 'Dear Deidre' has explained that she she was among a cohort of several thousand women who, by error, did not get invited for a mammogram when they turned 70 and, as a result, hadn't had a check for 10 years by the time it was discovered there 'was something to worry about.'
Speaking to The Sun, the paper she worked for for countless years, Deidre explained that she started to feel tension in her shoulders, saying: "I must have let at least a month pass while I wondered, “Is it anything to worry about? Is it just muscular? I am 77, after all, is it just the aches and pains of getting older?”.
