Beloved Australian TV personality John Blackman revealed he was recently diagnosed with bone cancer.
Before Hey Hey, Today is Saturday the star shared the news candidly Facebook Posted this week.
“Four weeks ago I was diagnosed with a very unexpected bone cancer on top of my noggin and potentially brain cancer underneath (yes, I do have a brain),” he wrote on the platform.
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“This is the same raging cancer that took my life four years ago.
“The good news is that cancer (if there’s a good side to it, cancer) is spreading up and down and not in many directions. This can make surgery impossible.
“After PET and CAT scans and radiation MRI, my plastic surgeon Frank consulted with my neurosurgeon, Patrick, and together they devised a plan. attack.”
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The 74-year-old later revealed he had undergone surgery at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and will begin six weeks of radiation next week.
He wrote: “The cancerous bone was gone and replaced with a titanium mesh; the skin graft replaced all of the skin on my head; and the brain biopsies were taken during surgery. The art is very clear,” he wrote.
“A wonderful outcome with immense gratitude to the dedicated doctors and nurses at The Alfred – the true heroes of each and every one of them. Six weeks of daily radiation therapy will begin next week. .”
Blackman – who is best known for voicing the puppet Dickie Knee on Hey Hey, Today is Saturday – previously battled an aggressive form of skin cancer.
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Back in 2018, he was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
At the time, he had to undergo a 10-hour surgery to replace part of his jawbone with a leg bone – a procedure that would have ended his career.
“[My surgeon] said, “Well, just be prepared to not be able to do all the things you’ve been able to do in the last 50 years,” that’s a hit in the heart,” Blackman said. A current relationship at that time.
“To perform, you have to be good looking, you have to sound good, you have to be confident and confident. I won’t be able to do that anymore.
“Life without doing that is so foreign to me. I mean, I don’t know what I would do.”
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