TV DIY legend Tommy Walsh has shared a cancer update after starting a new therapy called SABR. The Ground Force builder, who has been part of the Homes Under The Hammer Team since 2021, revealed cancer was found close to one of his lungs.
The 67-year-old is now having cutting-edge radiation treatment on the NHS, using technology which pinpoints cancer cells. He said: “My cancer came back earlier this year….they found it again under the lung.
“So I had to have this new treatment called SABR and what it is is radiotherapy which targets it to an exact spot without damaging the organs around it. So they used that and it shrunk. It is now not anywhere else. It is going away. Because it is shrinking it will shrink down to nothing and disappear. I will then just have to have annual checks. It has worked for me really well.”
Walsh said he felt lucky that the cancer was found “just outside his lung”. He added: “They thought it was in the lung and then I would have been in trouble. Surgery would have been serious where they cut you open and take a big lump of bone out of the rib and then they would have to put a piece of metal mesh in to stop the lung falling out of the hole.
"So I did not want but we had that as a backup. The SABR treatment has worked and I am healthy so I have not been in any pain.” The presenter also said he would always opt for the NHS over private healthcare. He added: “I was treated on the NHS. That is where I go. They have sorted it out and it is a great
"I would always go to the NHS. They have looked after me throughout this whole cancer shenanigans so why would I want to go somewhere else.”
Tommy first noticed health problems in November and said he was ill in January. He went for a CT scan for a suspected infection and doctors found cancer.
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