'IT WAS MABEL WHO REALLY GOT ME THROUGH IT'

SKY SPORTS PRESENTER JO WILSON CELEBRATES HER RECOVERY FROM CERVICAL CANCER

- SALLY JONES

Walking into her cancer consultant's office, Sky Sports News presenter Jo Wilson was bracing herself for more bad news. The scan results about to be shared with her could mean new hope or a death sentence.

Just eight months earlier the seemingly super-healthy Scottish star shocked fans when she revealed to OK! that she had been diagnosed with Stage 3 cervical cancer.

"I can honestly say, waiting for the results of my latest scan was one of the toughest times of my life," she confesses.

Jo, 38, had earlier been told that the disease had spread to her lymph nodes and was Stage 3C, one below a Stage 4 diagnosis. Bewildered and in pain, she'd undergone weeks of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in an attempt to save her life. Unable to eat, she'd already lost a stone from her willowy 5ft 10in frame.

Now she was bracing herself to discover if the gruelling treatment had been successful.

"There's actually a term for how I felt - 'scanxiety' - and I'd almost convinced myself it was going to be bad news," she says.

"I tried to read my consultant's body language as I walked in, but she must have known how I felt because before she'd even sat down, she told me, 'It's excellent news. There's no evidence of disease.'

"I could hardly believe it but she showed me the most recent scan compared to the one I'd had done when I was first diagnosed. This time it was absolutely clear, with none of the red ‘cancer’ zones that I’d seen on my previous scans.

“I felt a great wave of emotion when I heard the news. I started crying because I just couldn’t believe it. In fact, I’m still trying to process it.”