Only Fools and Horses' Mickey Pearce star Patrick Murray diagnosed with second cancer

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13 Jan 2023, 10:09

Only Fools and Horses icon Patrick Murray aka Mickey Pearce has shared the news he has had part of his liver and a tumour removed after being diagnosed with a secondary cancer.

The much-loved actor, 66, who played loveable Mickey in 20 episodes of Only Fools and Horses, told fans in 2021 how he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and had undergone surgery to remove the tumour. 

In May last year, he told fans the good news he was cured and that the tumour was decreasing, but he's just shared the concerning news: "I am going home today.

"Minus half a liver and a tumour that the wonderful Prof Heaton removed last week. I kept this under my hat that they’d discovered another primary cancer last year.

"I am a two person, that’s for sure. High fives to all at Kings College Hospital."

Patrick told followers in January 2022 about his lung cancer diagnosis after doctors found a malignant tumour and five months later he was on the road to recovery.

He said previously: "Last Friday l saw my oncologist She told me the lung cancer was cured and that the tumour in my liver was shrinking."

He added: "It’s not over yet , but as you can imagine I am over the moon with this latest news.

"Thanks to the brilliant doctors and nurses of our NHS, I will hopefully I be there, at next year's convention.

"During this chemo , another tumour was discovered in my liver. Luckily for me this cancer was unconnected to the lung cancer and was also treatable. I had a procedure called TACE to deal with this."

TACE (transarterial chemoembolisation) is used to control the cancer, rather than cure it and 'is a treatment for liver cancer that uses a combination of chemotherapy and an agent (small plastic beads) to block the blood vessels supplying the tumour (embolisation)'. 

Get well soon, Patrick.