Jamie Theakston emotionally reveals he’s cancer free after being told he had ‘one in 10 chance’ of survival
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‘Nice try cancer, but I’m still here!’ DJ told his listeners. Jamie Theakston has revealed he is cancer free after a four-month ordeal that saw doctors inform him he had a “one in 10 chance” of survival. In September 2024, the Heart Radio presenter was diagnosed with the disease after listeners noticed his voice sounded different on the air.
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In a statement shared online, Theakston, 53, told his fans that a biopsy identified Stage 1 laryngeal cancer after he underwent an operation to remove a lesion from his vocal cords. Now, four months later, he told his listeners: “Today is the four-month anniversary of my cancer diagnosis. So it’s been four months, and I’ve had enough of hospitals and operations, and it’s just lovely to be back, and I’ve got some news for you. Because I can tell you that as of today, I’m cancer free.”.
![[Jamie Theakston updated his Instagram followers with the good news]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/17/09/Screenshot-2025-01-17-at-09.50.13.jpg)
Theakston, who presents the station’s breakfast show on weekdays with Amanda Holden, continued: “Anyone who’s been through what I’ve been through will know it’s kind of you just get a barrage of statistics.”. He then opened up about his experience, breaking down what he was told by doctors while undergoing three surgeries.
“So they’ll always tell you in the first one, when I got my diagnosis which came as an enormous shock, by the way, I was fully intended to be told that I had a sore throat. ‘And when I was told, ‘Oh, it’s probably cancer,’ just, literally, I just didn’t even know what to say. I mean, it just blew my mind. And so then it’s all about statistics. So the first is go, ‘Well, you’ll have a one in 10 chance you won’t survive it.’.
