Victoria Wood's secret first cancer diagnosis and recovery years before disease returned
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mirror.co.ukWhen Victoria Wood died six years ago today, few knew that the comic genius had been suffering from terminal cancer - and that was just the way she wanted it.
It later transpired that the 62-year-old Lancashire-born star had been diagnosed with the disease four years earlier, with her authorised biography, Let’s Do It, revealing how she quit directing BBC’s Loving Miss Hatto for a year of radiotherapy, chemotherapy and ops on a malignant lymph node and cancer in the 'tummy area'.
Her son Henry, now 28, was living at home with her in Highgate, north London. He remembers: “It didn’t feel that ominous. It was like ‘uh-oh, it’s cancer’. “‘It looks like it’s going to be OK but we just have to get through it’.” However daughter Grace, now 32,
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