The Coronation Street legend – Liz McDonald on the cobbles – first revealed her heartbreaking early-stage breast cancer diagnosis in February
I’m A Celebrity’s Beverley Callard has revealed her cancer was removed during an operation – but it had spread to a lymph node.
The Coronation Street legend – Liz McDonald on the cobbles – first revealed announced her heartbreaking early-stage breast cancer diagnosis in February. She underwent surgery two weeks later in which she had multiple lymph nodes removed as a precaution.
But speaking in a new Instagram video, she said that while her cancer was successfully removed, it had spread. Beverley, 69, said after an agonising two-month wait for the results, her consultant from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital had said the surgery “went really well” and they “cut the cancer out”.
The soap star said: “They’re pleased with how the surgery went, and they also took three lymph nodes.
“And this is how she explained it to me: the lymph nodes are like a staircase, and if cancer is in the lymph nodes, it sort of tends to climb up the stairs.
“That’s oversimplifying it, but just to help explain.
“They took three and cancer is in the first lymph node, it’s not in the second, two and three. So it is there, but it’s only small.”
Beverley said docs told her the lymph node containing the cancer will be “sent to America” for specialist testing to determine “how aggressive” the disease is.
She explained: “If it’s aggressive, then I will have to undergo chemo first and then, after that, radiotherapy.
“If it’s not aggressive, I will have the radiotherapy as was planned. So, I’ve just got to wait and see now again.”
Beverley, whose current stint on the South Africa all-stars version of I’m A Celebrity was pre-recorded last September, said she wanted to update fans on her health.
She added: “In one way, it was kind of good news that the surgeries worked well, which I’m really pleased about, but because it’s in the lymph nodes, it’s still a worry.
“And still a waiting time, which is an absolute pain. But there we go, and I’m sure loads of you have been through the same thing. So that’s the state of play.”