ITV Dancing On Ice’s Christopher Dean’s major health scare that left him wondering if he’d ‘live or die’

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Christopher Dean suffered an "agonising" health scare that left him wondering whether he would "live or die".Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean recently announced their departures from Dancing on Ice, after 50 years of skating together.

They will both retire at the end of the year.Questions surrounding their health followed the announcement, causing discussion of Dean's serious scare in 2015 to resurface.Dean started to experience “agonising” stomach pains after filming 2015's series of Dancing on Ice.

He had never experienced poor health apart from skating injuries, and so sought medical attention. After a colonoscopy, the skater was told he had a two centimetres growth, called a polyp, on his colon.

It then had to be determined whether or not this growth was cancerous.Speaking to The Mirror, Dean said: “I was told about the various types of polyps – hyperplastic and inflammatory polyps do not carry a risk of developing into cancer, but my doctor was convinced I had an adenoma or adenomatous polyp.“Considered pre-cancerous, if left alone they can turn into colon cancer.