Jade has been speaking to GMTV about her cancer ordeal – and claims she didn’t know that the ‘cancer conversation’ was being recorded for TV.

She told GMTV that doctors had originally given her the all clear and packed her off with painkillers for period pain.

The Sex and the City redhead, who plays butch solicitor, Miranda Hobbs, has revealed she overcame breast cancer, but it wasn’t that big a brouhaha.

The mum of one discovered she had stage 1 cancer two years ago, she tells Shape magazine. Having watched her mum suffer with – and beat – breast cancer 30 years before, she wasn’t too worried.

In a near fatal case of head-in-the-sandness, Jade admits she had been for four smears that found abnormal cells and ignored a letter telling her she needed to have more cells removed in case they led to cervical cancer.

She had had cells removed after the first three abnormal smears, but she says she was too scared to go back to hospital and instead the pre-cancerous abnormal cells became full cervical cancer.

Breast cancer is a terrifying disease at the best of times, so when you’re a woman famour – in part – for the way you look, the way you move and – not to be too flippant – your womanly curves – it must suck even bigger.

So a big thumbs up to brave Christina Applegate, 36, who has burst forth onto the TV circuit and spoken eloquently and honestly about her double mastectomy and upcoming breast reconstruction surgery.

Reality TV nincompoop, Jade Goody, has left the Indian Big Brother house after being told in the diary room that she has cervical cancer.

There are shades of dark irony and there are gory details, but at the end of the day, it’s still cancer, so we’ll be respectful.

Great balls of fire, not five months has passed since news of his Pancreatic cancer and imminent demise hit the headlines, causing scores of weeping ladies and repeat airings of She’s Like The Wind.

But now the Hollywood favourite is back at work and – reportedly – looking healthy.

Patrick Swayze is looking remarkably well for someone who is supposed to be dead.

The Dirty Dancer was given only five weeks to live by doctors when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March.

But seemingly nothing really can put Patrick Swayze in the corner as he was pictured at LA Airport yesterday looking like he Cheshire cat that got the cream.

Ever wondered which fruit juices are the healthiest?

No, it hasn’t exactly kept us awake at night either. But, conveniently, researchers at UCLA have given it some thought, and have come up with the eight best ones to get next time you are in a supermarket or cafe.

Most of us usually go for apple or orange, but have you ever considered pomegranate? Again, neither did we.

Women who like to eat flame-grilled food are more likely to get breast cancer than those who don’t.

That’s according to a new study, which found that ladies who feast on flame-grilled foods more than twice a month were 74% more likely to develop the disease.

You have to hand it to Amy Winehouse – she certainly isn’t a quitter.

There was us worrying about whether we would ever be able to complete our Amy Winehouse Disease Bingo card and the she manages to pull ‘skin cancer’ out the bag.

OK, we are not crossing it off yet, but by the sounds of it, it will only be a matter of time until she’s be able to shout “house, splutter, splutter” at the top of the gunk-filled, peanut-sized husks she once called her lungs.

From HECKLERSPRAY - There was a golden age in the movies when actors acted, when movies were interesting and when men were MEN.

It was an age of moralising without snobbery, with heroes you wanted to be and leading men you wished you could just hug and say ‘thank you’ to.