had a 12cm tumour removed from his armpit, which was thankfully later found to be benign and not cancerous. Opening up about his ordeal, Mark told OK!
Magazine: ‘It was at first. They couldn’t tell me if it was a lipoma.‘Even after ultrasound scans and MRIs and stuff, they still couldn’t tell me.
It was just so big and it was growing quite fast, so that’s what was worrying for me.’ He added: ‘Instead of doing a biopsy, they whipped it out and then I got the results about a week later and found it wasn’t cancer.
So it was scary up until that point, then I felt so much better.’ Mark, who is married to Our Girl actress Michelle Keegan, recently told Metro.co.uk that speaking out about his experience led to many people reaching out to him to say that he’d encouraged them to go and see their own doctors about lumps they’d been putting off getting checked.
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