Dame Esther Rantzen (Image: Joe Maher, Getty Images)

Dame Esther Rantzen has been struck by a second form of cancer . The 85-year-old television presenter was told she had stage four lung cancer in 2023 and has now disclosed that she has recently been hit by another type of the disease, though her medical team has chosen not to provide treatment for it.

In her column for The Times, she wrote: "And a further diagnosis, comparatively recently, has revealed that I am also being attacked by a completely different kind of cancer, which needed treatment with chemotherapy and being zapped with radiotherapy. I'm not sure exactly what it is. But it is quite annoying to have two different kinds of cancer simultaneously.

"I am not receiving any treatment at all"... as "the side-effects outweig

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