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Katherine Ryan shares a health update after undergoing second surgery for skin cancer


The comedian, 41, announced that she had been diagnosed with a cancerous mole on her arm last week, after having another melanoma when she was younger.

Speaking on her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything last week, she explained: 'The only reason that they agreed to remove it was because I went to a fancy private place in South Kensington and I paid them a grand. 'I had to have full general anesthetic and surgery to have a golf-ball size of my leg because - if you know about melanoma, you know it's a deadly form of skin cancer and it spreads quickly.' Targeted medicines and immotherapy are used to treat melanomas that can't be dealt with by surgery, or have spread to lymph glands or other parts of the body.

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