BBC newsreader George Alagiah has said he is 'in a sort of limbo' as he waits to hear the outcome of his latest round of cancer treatment. The broadcaster, 63, says he is determined to live each day 'to the full' after he revealed earlier this year that he was being treated for a recurrence of the illness. Alagiah, who appeared on The One Show yesterday, said: 'I'm living with cancer like lots and lots of other people.
'I'm in a sort of limbo.
'It keeps coming back and my amazing doctors shove it back into its hole.'
Alagiah, who is among those who have called for earlier screening for the disease, said he had completed some treatment a month ago.
'I have a scan in a few weeks' time and I'll know,' he said.
'The only way I know - and different people deal with cancer in a different way - is to live each day as it comes along and live it to the full.'
The newsreader was on the programme to discuss his debut novel, political thriller The Burning Land, which will be released on August 29.
He said he started it before being diagnosed with cancer but stopped writing it when he became ill.
'Once cancer came, it's a life-changing situation and I didn't even think about it,' he said.
'But I had a couple of years when it seemed to go away and I picked it up again and then was fortunate enough to have Canongate, my publishers, come and say they really liked it.'
In June Alagiah thanked the public for the 'tremendous' support they had showed him since his 2014 diagnosis for bowel cancer, as he revealed the cancer had returned.
Alagiah underwent 17 rounds of chemotherapy to treat advanced bowel cancer in 2014 before returning to presenting duties in 2015, but in January 2018 he revealed that he was struggling once again. The journalist recently opened up about his Stage 4 diagnosis and how it affected his family and mental health in a new podcast.
Speaking on the George Alagiah: A Bowel Cancer UK podcast, he said in April: 'Everybody's got their way of dealing with it, but I had to get to what I now call my place of contentment.
'Because there was so much thrashing about in my mind, some of it negative, some of it dark.'
George started his journalism career at the BBC in 1989 and became one of the BBC's leading foreign correspondents, reporting on new stories in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In January this year George presented News at Six for the first time in more than a year this after taking time off to battle cancer.
