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Wilson said she was sharing the story as she was not sure if those who had been diagnosed with cancer ever felt free of it (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\nSky Sports News presenter Jo Wilson has revealed she was wrongly told that her cancer had returned.<\/p>\n
The journalist revealed she had been diagnosed with stage three cervical cancer in September 2022, and said she had \u201cno evidence of disease\u201d in a post on Instagram in March 2023 following treatment.<\/p>\n
A recent post on her Instagram read: \u201cIn February, after my three-year scan, I was told my cancer had returned in a lymph node. I couldn\u2019t believe it \u2013 it felt like my whole world had crumbled all over again.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut after being referred to the high-dose radiotherapy team, one consultant questioned whether the diagnosis was actually correct.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat followed were five months of tests, scans, waiting and uncertainty before, last week, I finally got the news I\u2019d been desperately hoping for, it wasn\u2019t cancer after all.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lymph node is now thought to be a benign neuroma \u2013 a cluster of nerves that was likely inflamed at the time of my original scan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe relief was indescribable, but so too is the emotional toll from the last five months, believing \u2013 then not knowing if my cancer had returned.<\/p>\n
Wilson said she was sharing the story as she was not sure if those who had been diagnosed with cancer ever felt free of it (Ian West\/PA)<\/p>\n
\u201cLiving with that uncertainty was incredibly hard. On the outside, life carried on \u2013 I worked, was being a mum, played (lots of) padel, spent time with friends and family, and smiled for photos.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut underneath it all, I was carrying something very heavy, and there were times I found myself in some very dark places.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson went on to say that she had shared the misdiagnosis as she doubted whether those who had lived through a cancer diagnosis \u201cever truly feel free of it\u201d even following the all-clear.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cThe fear of recurrence can stay with you long after treatment ends, and I think it\u2019s important we talk about that reality.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re someone living beyond a cancer diagnosis, please know you\u2019re not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson also said she shared the story as \u201cwe never really know what someone else is carrying\u201d and said it was her \u201creminder to be kind\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky Sports News presenter Jo Wilson has revealed she was wrongly told that her cancer had returned. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-564674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}