BBC television newsreader, George Alagiah, 62, has expressed that his cancer could have been detected sooner if NHS screening in England began as early as it does in Scotland.
The News at Six presenter was informed that his stage-four bowel cancer had returned just before Christmas. Alagiah was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014 which later spread to his liver and lymph nodes. After 17 rounds of chemotherapy and five operations, he returned to work in 2015.
He said, “Had I been screened, I could have been picked up. Had they had screening at 50, like they do in Scotland... I would have been screened at least three times and possibly four by the time I was 58 and this would have been caught at the stage of a little polyp: snip, snip.”
