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Trisha Goddard has revealed that her cancer has returned – and this time, there is no cure.

The 66-year-old, who lives in America with her husband, is currently undergoing life-prolonging treatment for the illness which was discovered in 2022, but she kept secret at the time.

She was was first diagnosed with the disease in cancer 2008, but after treatment, was given the all-clear, though the illness affected her marriage, and made her feel ‘ugly and unwomanly’. Later, in 2010, she moved to the States blaming the UK media for making her treatment a ‘traumatic experience’ by being too intrusive.

Now, she has been diagnosed with secondary breast cancer also known as metastatic or stage 4 breast cancer – after cells were found in her hip following a fall.

According to Trisha, speaking in an interview with Hello, she is making her news public because she wanted to removed the weight of carrying the news, which she’d been doing for 19-months.

Trish Goddard (pictured) has revealed she has stage-4 cancer, which she was diagnosed with 19 months ago

Trish Goddard (pictured) has revealed she has stage-4 cancer, which she was diagnosed with 19 months ago

The 66-year-old (pictured) was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, but revealed that it has now come back

The 66-year-old (pictured) was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, but revealed that it has now come back

Trisha, who has a weekly show for TalkTV and works for CNN, said she didn’t want to be seen as ‘frail’, but added: ‘I can’t lie, I can’t keep making up stories. It gets to a stage, after a year and a half, when keeping a secret becomes more of a burden than anything else.’

Looking younger than her year, with her peroxide crop and slim frame, she added that publicising the news made her nervous, but she ‘knew it had to be done’. 

As a result, she has shared the secret, and revealed that she plans to keep doing the things that made her happy.

Describing how it felt to have an illness she knows will not go away, she described experiencing a range of emotions.

Trisha said: ‘[The cancer] is not going to go away, and with that knowledge comes grief, and fear. But I must keep enjoying what I have always enjoyed.’ 

She also spoke about how she didn’t want to be seen following her diagnosis, saying she wasn’t a ‘poster girl’ for cancer, and did not want to read words like ‘terminal’ or ‘battling’ or ‘dying’.

Explaining why she had kept the diagnosis secret for a year, Trisha said she didn’t want to be treated as though she were sick.

She said that one of her worries was that she may miss out on work, or that people would change how they behaved with her. 

Trisha had an accident in 2022, when she discovered she had stage-4 cancer, but has kept the secret since then

Trisha had an accident in 2022, when she discovered she had stage-4 cancer, but has kept the secret since then

The TV host  was first diagnosed with the disease in 2008 and now has secondary breast cancer - also known as metastatic or stage 4 breast cancer ¿ after cells were found in her hip following a fall.

The TV host  was first diagnosed with the disease in 2008 and now has secondary breast cancer – also known as metastatic or stage 4 breast cancer – after cells were found in her hip following a fall.

And, as a journalist, she said, she did not want to be the story herself. 

The secondary cancer was discovered after Trisha was running upstairs at home, and fell over.

She was trapped alone for three hours until eventually being taken to hospital by neighbours.

Doctors told the TV presenter, that she had broken her femur, and smashed her right hip – and they found a tumour.

What is stage 4 cancer?

Cancer is regularly categorised by stages, which depend on how severe it is and if it’s pread.

Cancer sufferers will often hear the staging system 0-4.

Stage 0: The cancer has not spread – it’s where it started.

Stage 1: The cancer hasn’t yet spread anywhere else and is small.

Stage 2: The cancer hasn’t spread anywhere else but has grown in size.

Stage 3: The cancer may have spread to surrounding tissue, lymph nodes, or ‘glands’. It has grown.

Stage 4: This cancer, often referred to as ‘secondary’ or ‘metastatic cancer’, has spread to at least one other organ.

They decided to run a biopsy – where tissue or cell samples are examined. Medics found her right hip was ‘full of cancer cells’.

Trisha underwent weekly chemotherapy sessions for four and a half months as well three weeks of daily radiation.

The presented has now revealed that it was not until this moment that she’d known about her cancer returning. However, she kept news of the cancer secret for 19 months at that point, just telling the public that she nearly died following the fall in 2022, after which the cancer was discovered.

That fall left her in shock, relying on a walking frame and sticks following emergency surgery.

She took to Instagram where she spoke about the accident, but not about the discovery of the cancer cells.

Trisha admitted she was still ‘not out of the woods’ following her near fatal accident which left her in ‘roaring pain’.

She took to Instagram where she detailed her terrifying ordeal, revealing how she’d been rushed to casualty after falling down the stairs.

The Talk TV broadcaster told her fans: ‘I’ve just had 2 of the toughest weeks… One where I was rushed to hospital for an emergency operation, literally roaring in pain.

‘But I’m still alive… just. I spent a week in hospital, was discharged on the Friday and with the help of Mother Morphine, did my 3 hour @talktv shows on Saturday and Sunday. Oh, and filmed a piece for @60minutes9 midweek too!’

She added on Saturday: ‘On tomorrow’s show l’Il share what happened because I’m not out of the woods yet.. How @alexa99 saved my life.’

Meanwhile, Jonathan Shallit – who represents Trisha – revealed more about the injury, on Twitter. 

He wrote: ‘After week in hospital nothing stops TRISHA GODDARD broadcasting live 1pm today Talk Radio @TalkTV after nasty fall downstairs, trapped alone & going into shock with broken femur, unable to move for 3 hours, even with walking frame & sticks @InterTalent.’ 

Trisha Goddard has revealed her breast cancer has returned and while there is no cure she is undergoing life-prolonging treatment

Trisha Goddard has revealed her breast cancer has returned and while there is no cure she is undergoing life-prolonging treatment 

Trisha also took to her Instagram Stories where she posted pictures of herself with a drip in her arm as she lay on a hospital bed.

And on that Sunday night, the former chat show host also showed off her walking frame as she sat recovering in a chair, joking that she was ‘too sexy.’

Trisha’s history with the illness has been a long one, with her first diagnosis dating back to 2008.

The condition was discovered after she had a running injury that year and she decided to get an X-ray.

Nurses asked her long it had been since she’d had a mammogram, which prompted her to book in for one.

Mammograms screen the breasts, and can detect changes to breast tissue. After treating the condition, she was in remission that year.

However, she has previously opened up on how the diagnosis and treatment took its toll on her third husband Peter Gianfrancesco, with the pair eventually divorcing in 2018.

She told Hello magazine it’s ‘harder for the loved ones’ because they don’t feel they can say to the person with the illness that they are struggling, ‘for fear of people going, “You’re finding it tough? What about your partner?”.’ 

When speaking on Lorraine, Trisha added that the cancer had also contributed to the breakdown of her marriage because it made her feel ‘ugly and unwomanly’. 

She said: ‘There’s a whole thing about body image, how you feel after breast cancer and what it does to you and how it affects your love life and what have you.

‘I ended up feeling very, very ugly and was made to feel very ugly and unwomanly and I took that on board and you do believe it./ 

‘I did work very hard to keep the marriage together but there just came a moment when I had to call time.’

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world and affects more than two MILLION women a year

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. Each year in the UK there are more than 55,000 new cases, and the disease claims the lives of 11,500 women. In the US, it strikes 266,000 each year and kills 40,000. But what causes it and how can it be treated?

What is breast cancer?

It comes from a cancerous cell which develops in the lining of a duct or lobule in one of the breasts.

When the breast cancer has spread into surrounding tissue it is called ‘invasive’. Some people are diagnosed with ‘carcinoma in situ’, where no cancer cells have grown beyond the duct or lobule.

Most cases develop in those over the age of 50 but younger women are sometimes affected. Breast cancer can develop in men, though this is rare.

Staging indicates how big the cancer is and whether it has spread. Stage 1 is the earliest stage and stage 4 means the cancer has spread to another part of the body.

The cancerous cells are graded from low, which means a slow growth, to high, which is fast-growing. High-grade cancers are more likely to come back after they have first been treated.

What causes breast cancer?

A cancerous tumour starts from one abnormal cell. The exact reason why a cell becomes cancerous is unclear. It is thought that something damages or alters certain genes in the cell. This makes the cell abnormal and multiply ‘out of control’.

Although breast cancer can develop for no apparent reason, there are some risk factors that can increase the chance, such as genetics.

What are the symptoms of breast cancer?

The usual first symptom is a painless lump in the breast, although most are not cancerous and are fluid filled cysts, which are benign. 

The first place that breast cancer usually spreads to is the lymph nodes in the armpit. If this occurs you will develop a swelling or lump in an armpit.

How is breast cancer diagnosed?

  • Initial assessment: A doctor examines the breasts and armpits. They may do tests such as a mammography, a special x-ray of the breast tissue which can indicate the possibility of tumours.
  • Biopsy: A biopsy is when a small sample of tissue is removed from a part of the body. The sample is then examined under a microscope to look for abnormal cells. The sample can confirm or rule out cancer.

If you are confirmed to have breast cancer, further tests may be needed to assess if it has spread. For example, blood tests, an ultrasound scan of the liver or a chest X-ray.

How is breast cancer treated?

Treatment options which may be considered include surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone treatment. Often a combination of two or more of these treatments are used.

  • Surgery: Breast-conserving surgery or the removal of the affected breast depending on the size of the tumour.
  • Radiotherapy: A treatment which uses high energy beams of radiation focused on cancerous tissue. This kills cancer cells, or stops them from multiplying. It is mainly used in addition to surgery.
  • Chemotherapy: A treatment of cancer by using anti-cancer drugs which kill cancer cells, or stop them from multiplying.
  • Hormone treatments: Some types of breast cancer are affected by the ‘female’ hormone oestrogen, which can stimulate the cancer cells to divide and multiply. Treatments which reduce the level of these hormones, or prevent them from working, are commonly used in people with breast cancer.

How successful is treatment?

The outlook is best in those who are diagnosed when the cancer is still small, and has not spread. Surgical removal of a tumour in an early stage may then give a good chance of cure.

The routine mammography offered to women between the ages of 50 and 70 means more breast cancers are being diagnosed and treated at an early stage.

For more information visit breastcancernow.org or call its free helpline on 0808 800 6000

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