Katherine Ryan has shared that she has been diagnosed with skin cancer again.
The 41-year-old comedian has been diagnosed with melanoma for the second time after spotting an unusual mole on her arm that turned out to be cancerous. The Masked Singer star was first diagnosed with skin cancer back in 2004.
The mum-of-three had grown concerned about the mole and initially got the all clear from her doctor. However, the mole kept changing and the doctor later confirmed to her that it was indeed cancerous.
Katherine has admitted she’s “really worried” about the diagnosis. Speaking about it on her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything, she said: “I know you should never google things but I’m actually really worried. Normally I’m that positive person.
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“I think it’s really easy to take a diagnosis of ‘you’re healthy’ and walk away. But the mole kept changing, I know a lot about melanoma, I had melanoma as a very young woman – aged 21 – on my leg, I’ve spoken about that before.
“It was flat, it wasn’t that big but it was melanoma. It is a deadly form of skin cancer and it does spread quickly.
“I just thought that this mole wasn’t right. It’s on my arm. I showed pictures of it on my social media. I went in and I wanted the doctor to remove it and stitch it up in a straight line.
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“But even when he looked at it, he was like, ‘it’s not melanoma, it’s totally fine, I will do a shave and send it away for testing’.” She added: “And he rang me today and it did come back as melanoma. Early melanoma. The doctor was shocked and told me I need to go back.
She went on: “It’s early melanoma and [the doctor] was shocked because it doesn’t look like melanoma but it is. He said ‘you need to come back on Monday’, which I don’t have time on Monday but luckily he gave me some time in the afternoon.”
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“It’s crazy what could have happened if I didn’t continue to be my own advocate and I will continue to be my own advocate… If I hadn’t pushed, if I had taken that good answer the first time and walked away then I would have had melanoma just growing and spreading on my arm.”
She revealed she paid to have the mole removed from her arm before learning it was cancerous. She claimed the only reason they agreed to remove it was “went to a fancy private place in South Kensington and I paid them a grand.”
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Katherine was just 21 years old when she was first diagnosed with melanoma. She had a “golf-ball-sized” lump removed from her leg.
“The cancer wasn’t that serious,” the comic said of her first diagnosis. “It wasn’t into my lymph nodes, I didn’t have to have chemotherapy. It did recur, but it was easily dealt with. I feel like I was really lucky just to get that lesson, that little smack on the a**e of ‘Hey, wait a minute. Listen to your body, here.’”
The TV star tied the knot with her long-term boyfriend Bobby Kootstra in 2019. The pair share son Fred, three, and daughter Fenna, two, and Katherine has 15-year-old Violet from a past relationship.
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