King, chief executive of the event which celebrates and elevates black music in the UK, said the first standard bowel cancer test came back negative but the second more in-depth test revealed there was an issue.
“At first they thought it was a viral flu that I had so they gave all the usual tests associated with being tired and they said come back in a few weeks, and I kept going back and I realised that saved my life.
Mobo Awards founder Kanya King has encouraged others to “take control and advocate for yourself” after discovering she has stage four bowel cancer by requesting more medical tests as she knew something did not “feel right”.
Recalling the experience on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Monday, King, 56, said: “I kept going back to the doctor.
Prior to her diagnosis she had done the standard bowel cancer people get in the post but it had been negative, and it was later after doing a fecal immunochemical test (FIT), which looks for blood in your stool which may not be visible, that it showed signs for concern.
