Post by eithne on Mar 19, 2006 23:47:18 GMT
EastEnders star Nicky Henson is battling cancer, according to reports in The Sun.
He thought he had beaten the disease after surgery three years ago — but it returned.
Nicky, 60, who plays landscape gardener Jack Edwards in the BBC soap, said last night: “Nothing quite prepares you for this situation.”
Surgeons removed life-threatening tumours from around his spleen in 2003.
Then a routine check showed others had grown and it would be dangerous to remove them.
Instead, Nicky was put on a gruelling course of chemotherapy, involving the use of a groundbreaking new drug.
Now he faces a tense few weeks as he waits to see if it has shrunk the tumours enough to let surgeons operate.
The actor, who appears in George Clooney’s new movie thriller Syriana, said the cast and production chiefs on EastEnders had been supportive throughout.
Nicky, remembered as a randy guest in TV’s Fawlty Towers, said: “It’s been great.
“Because I have been ill they gave me a room of my own to rest in and I stay near the studios instead of facing a long drive home.”
From the Sun
(That is sad as I feel the character of Jack has grown on me quite a bit over the past few weeks!)
He thought he had beaten the disease after surgery three years ago — but it returned.
Nicky, 60, who plays landscape gardener Jack Edwards in the BBC soap, said last night: “Nothing quite prepares you for this situation.”
Surgeons removed life-threatening tumours from around his spleen in 2003.
Then a routine check showed others had grown and it would be dangerous to remove them.
Instead, Nicky was put on a gruelling course of chemotherapy, involving the use of a groundbreaking new drug.
Now he faces a tense few weeks as he waits to see if it has shrunk the tumours enough to let surgeons operate.
The actor, who appears in George Clooney’s new movie thriller Syriana, said the cast and production chiefs on EastEnders had been supportive throughout.
Nicky, remembered as a randy guest in TV’s Fawlty Towers, said: “It’s been great.
“Because I have been ill they gave me a room of my own to rest in and I stay near the studios instead of facing a long drive home.”
From the Sun
(That is sad as I feel the character of Jack has grown on me quite a bit over the past few weeks!)
