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'I only fear for those I leave behind'- BBC newsreader reveals she has just days to live after cancer spreads

September 4, 2018

BBC newsreader Rachael Bland has revealed she has just days to live after being diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2016. I

Bland who is newsreader for BBC North West Tonight in England, announced the news on Twitter today

"In the words of the legendary Frank S - I'm afraid the time has come my friends. And suddenly. I'm told I've only got days [...] Au revoir my friends," she wrote.

In May, after several rounds of treatment, Bland was told her cancer had become terminal. Two months later, the cancer had spread.

The 40-year-old, who has a two-year-old son with her husband Steve, wrote in the Sunday Telegraph last month that she was "in a race against time", saying: "I'm not scared of dying. I only fear for those I leave behind."

"For my darling Freddie, who'll be three next month, for Steve and our families. Even now, knowing the 'no options left' conversation is coming, I can't crumble and fall to pieces".

"I still want to take joy from the moments when he turns to me, as he has begun to the last few weeks, and says: 'Oh, I missed you Mummy. I love you so much.'"

Bland also discusses her experience with cancer as a co-presenter on the BBC Radio 5 live podcast, You, Me and the Big C.

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