The Sunday Show: Chris Interviewed Derek King on bladder cancer during Covid

Covid has taken a serious toll on people with cancer in 2020; Join Chris Woollams interviewed Derek King, with bladder cancer, overcame his problems. Cancer during covid - you can have a successful outcome!

In this show Chris interviewed Derek King and his wife Diana.

In January Derek (now 83) was diagnosed with Bladder cancer and given surgery. His urologist said that with chemotherapy he 'had a year at most'; his oncologist disagreed and said ‘6 months if lucky’.

Chemotherapy was planned but then Covid arrived. The chemo was promptly dropped for fear of the dangers of chemo causing Derek to have a poor immune system with Covid-19 around.

Derek was left on his own.

But not completely! Derek turned to Chris. 9 months later, two consecutive scans have shown Derek all clear; Derek believes he is alive today only because of Chris. This Sunday Show has a lighthearted look at what therapies Derek believes made the difference.