The comic Mark Steel has revealed he has been recognized with most cancers.

In a publish on his web site, the 63-year-old mentioned he has throat most cancers which has unfold to the lymph glands - however medical doctors have estimated he can return to performing in six months.

Steel candidly detailed how he was recognized after noticing one facet of his neck was bigger than the opposite.

After going to his physician, he went for a scan in hospital.

He mentioned: "I lay on a blue plastic bench, where they covered my neck in sticky jelly and she placed a machine on my throat that looked like an electric shaver from the 1970s. And in the next moment, everything changed."

"The radiologist looked at this screen with a look that you see on an actor at the end of a soap opera episode, that says 'something BIG has happened'," Steel wrote.

He added: "She rolled the shaver and looked at the screen again, closely, quizzically, as if she was in a science fiction film and was getting readings that showed I wasn't human, then rolled it back a half-turn, concentrating quietly.

"'It's very enlarged', mentioned the radiologist, 'it is very uneven, and laborious. I'm reserving you for a effective needle aspirational biopsy.'"

After an MRI and a CAT scan, he wanted to have a second biopsy when the primary obtained misplaced in transit.

But after being recognized, Steel described his delight that it was treatable, saying: "There were some details about surgery and glands and chemotherapy and radiotherapy and PET scans and taking six months off performing but I didn't hear any of that as it was the moment I was assured I would almost certainly live through this.

"The physician was sorry I must cancel some exhibits, however at that time I'd have been delighted if he'd mentioned I'd be alright though I must spend my life inserting raisins into bars of Cadbury's Fruit and Nut."

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Steel is because of bear surgical procedure within the coming days to verify the placement of the most cancers, after which therapy can start.

During his profession, he has continuously appeared on panel exhibits together with Have I Got News For You and Mock The Week, in addition to touring, writing columns and podcasting.

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