Balding, who had thyroid cancer more than a decade ago, teamed up with Stand Up To Cancer.

TV sports presenter Clare Balding has led a team of mascots, including a poo, a breast and a vulva, through central London urging people to get up-to-date cancer screenings.

Balding, who had thyroid cancer more than a decade ago, walked through Westminster on Tuesday with three mascots which represented the screening programmes available in the UK – breast, bowel and cervical.

The 54-year old, who recently appeared in the first BBC celebrity spin-off series of The Traitors, teamed up with Stand Up To Cancer ahead of its flagship fundraising show on Friday to help launch its new nationwide cancer screening checker.

Speaking to the Press Association, Balding described the campaign as one of the “st

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