BBC Breakfast has delivered a heart-breaking announcement to viewers.
Roger Johnson shared that someone he’d grown close to has been given just three months to live. The programme saw Roger and Rachel Burden take a pause to discuss BBC Breakfast guest Warwick Smith, who had been diagnosed with throat cancer.
While his initial diagnosis had given him six months to live, Warwick has now been informed he has just three months left. Despite facing such a devastating diagnosis, Warwick remains determined not to allow his condition to derail his ambitious goal.
Rachel began the segment by explaining: “Back in 2022, Warwick Smith was told he had throat cancer and was given six months to live. Now, since then, he’s raised almost £70,000 for cancer charities,” reports the Mirror.
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“Now, Warwick has been in touch with me quite a lot over the years. He sends me emails and last month he emailed me to say that the cancer had returned. It’s in his ribs, his spine, his right lung, his liver and in his brain.”
“This time he’s been given three months to live. However, he wanted to do a 10k for Macmillan Cancer Support which is pretty impressive. He couldn’t do it in one go. He’s just not healthy enough and just can’t manage it. However, he set out to complete it in three separate stints and earlier this week I was there as he finished his final lap of his local lake.”
In the heart-warming clip Warwick declared: “I don’t want to fester and fade away. I know I have got to keep moving, to keep active, to keep going.”
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Roger provided commentary over footage of Warwick and said: “It’s some defiance from a man who’s been given weeks to live but this 67-year-old is a fighter, day by day, one step at a time, he keeps defying the odds. Warwick waited three months for the scan, which found his throat cancer. His brother had died from it.
“Now he’s helped to purchase handheld scanners, which will revolutionise diagnosis in the future. Last week he got to see them.”
In a touching revelation, Warwick admitted: “I’ve had a good life, and I think I’m doing something good. I just wanted to leave something good behind.”
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