Sky Sports' Jacquie Beltrao gives breast cancer update after devastating diagnosis
Jacquie Beltrao is battling breast cancer for a second time and she has been told that it may never go away and doctors will try to "control" it
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Jacquie Beltrao has said given an encouraging update on the cancerous lump in her breast after being told by doctors that it was "incurable."
The 55-year-old Sky News sports presenter was pleased to hear that it has shrunk to half its original size.
Jacquie was recently diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time after doctors reportedly first told her she had the condition in 2013.
Speaking to Hello! magazine that "neither my doctors nor I could believe" how much the growth had shrunk by.
She added: "I was stunned and so relieved.
"I was told that even if the tumour inside my breast had remained the same size, that would be a good result.
"But to find it had shrunk was unheard of."
The former Olympic gymnast was devastated when finding out that she was ill again and "didn't realise" breast cancer could return.
Speaking about the diagnosis, Jacquie said: "Facing it again felt like a kick in the stomach.
"When I was told it was incurable, I burst into tears and thought, 'That's it, I'm going to die'."
With such a heartbreaking outcome, Jacquie spoke about what has upset her about the future.
She added: "I felt so sad that I'd never go to my daughter's wedding, see my sons graduate, or become a grandma."
Jacquie said that while she is "not out of the woods yet" doctors have told her it is "possible to keep the cancer under control".
She revealed her diagnosis in a piece to camera that she shared on social media in June, after she had already started treatment for grade three breast cancer.
The sports news anchor told her fans: "For the last four weeks, me and my family have been walking through a living nightmare.
"But I am where I am. I've got a great medical team, friends, family."
Jacquie went public with the news because she didn't feel comfortable pretending everything had been normal on her return to work at Sky.
She said: "In lockdown I took my own advice did a check found a tiny little lump just here.
"I had it biopsied, turns out it's a grade three breast cancer once again. Much nastier than the first one I had.
"I'm sharing this because it felt weird going back to Sky and going on social media again pretending everything was shiny and fun when it wasn't."
*Read the full interview in Hello! magazine, out now.
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