Katherine Ryan has revealed that she has been diagnosed with skin cancer for the second time.The stand-up comic and former NME columnist, 41, shared the news on Friday (March 21) on her podcast Telling Everybody Everything.
She revealed that she had been concerned about a mole on her arm and sought professional help, but a private doctor initially told her that there was nothing to worry about.However, she noticed that the mole continued to grow, and having received a stage two melanoma diagnosis in her 20s due to an irregular mole on her leg, she went back to a doctor.
Tests confirmed that the new mole was in fact cancerous.Speaking about receiving the initial all-clear, Ryan said: “He gave me the news that I wanted!
I think it’s really easy to take a diagnosis of you’re healthy and walk away. You go, ‘Great, I’m healthy’ and you don’t think about it again because that is the easiest news.”“But the mole kept changing,” she continued. “I know a lot about melanoma.