Top broadcaster Joan Bakewell has been diagnosed with colon cancer, she announced today.
Baroness Bakewell (89) is being treated and operated on before Christmas after her cancer was discovered during a routine check-up.
She said: “I have recovered from this (surgery). I feel fine and the chemo is a clean up operation to make sure it doesn’t come back.
The English journalist and TV presenter, who has already touched on how powerless she felt when her sister died of breast cancer at the age of 58, said she is positive about her prognosis.
“I was always optimistic because I caught this cancer early and had to be operated on in the hospital within a week,” she said.
She has continued to work throughout her health battle, including on a new series of Landscape Artist of the Year, which starts tonight on Sky Arts.
Top broadcaster Joan Bakewell has been diagnosed with colon cancer, she announced today
In total, she only canceled one voice-over session during her recovery period.
Dubbed the thinking man’s “krump” by humorist Frank Muir, Baroness Bakewell inspired Harold Pinter’s Betrayal after having an affair with the playwright while married to TV producer Michael Bakewell. Pinter was married to actress Vivien Merchant.
“I went into the House of Lords this week so I could do whatever I needed to do,” the Labor peer said.
“I’m supposed to have chemotherapy every two weeks, but I have time off and I went to the ballet the other day.
“I don’t get involved as much as possible, but of course I do what I’m told. You just have to get on with life.’
Baroness Bakewell enjoyed a long and illustrious career in the British media. She started as a studio manager for BBC Radio and presented various programs in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s.
She adds that her work as a patron of breast cancer care has served her well.
“I know and talk to people who have had recurrent cancer and things like that and I know what it means to keep up the courage and continue with the treatments that are offered.
“And of course I was able to learn that treatments have improved so much and cancer is no longer a death sentence – so we have to catch it early and do whatever tests come up and pass.”
She adds: “In a way it made me feel optimistic, which sounds strange.”
Baroness Bakewell enjoyed a long and illustrious career in the British media. She started as a studio manager for BBC Radio and presented various programs in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s.
She is also a published author and was awarded a Life Peerage in January 2011.
Baroness Bakewell, 89, is being treated and operated on before Christmas after her cancer was discovered during a routine check-up
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