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KATIE Price has revealed she is undergoing medical tests after recurring pain in the same finger where she previously had cancer.
The star, 47, said her recent symptoms have raised fears the disease could return.
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Katie has also been having blood work done and discovered she has a low blood platelet count that could have the ability to cause her weight to drop.
The mum-of-five said: “I’ve had my bloods done, and I’ve got really really low platelets and I thought that was (low) iron, and it’s not.
“And that could be a reason why maybe I’ve got thinner.
“I’m tired, no energy. They [the doctors] said it can affect that and I think you might have to have a blood transfusion to get them [the platelets] back up again.
“So I’ve got to go back and have my bloods done again.”
Katie went on to speak about her previous battle with a very rare form of cancer.
Back in 2002 while she was pregnant with son Harvey, 23, she developed a rare form of soft tissue cancer on her finger, specifically a leiomyosarcoma.
Speaking to her sister Sophie on the latest episode of their podcast, Katie said: “Another thing that’s really weird, you know when I had cancer years ago.
“For some who didn’t know, when I was pregnant with Harvey I got cancer, called leiomyosarcoma.
“If you look at my finger, there is like a hole there and a scar there, I had it cut out twice. Can you see that dent? It never hurt.
“But a lump started coming up and I thought I had been riding and done something to my finger.
“But anyway cut the long story short it was leiomyosarcoma so I had to have MRI scans and all of that for six years until I was clear.”
Katie said over the past few weeks the same finger has been hurting again.
She said: “The same finger here, up here, this is about three weeks ago, I thought, have I knocked it? Because it hurts when I push it but there’s no lump.
“And it (the pain) still hasn’t gone. So I’m going to get that X-rayed and looked at so I hope it’s not that again.”
Katie admitted that she is now worried about the pain, which has persisted for a while.
She added: “This better not be my bad news, and get bad results, because all this is happening, and then normally in my life something good happens and then something bad happens. Let’s hope it’s nothing bad.”
Katie’s sister Sophie attempted to reasure her and said: “Lets keep positive eh? Keeping positive.”
KATIE’S CANCER BATTLE
Kate had a rare soft-tissue cancer when she was 24 years old.
The former glamour previously revealed the ordeal came came just 11 weeks after she had been told that Harvey was blind and had Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Speaking to Katherine Ryan on her What’s My Name Again? podcast, Katie said: “While I was pregnant with Harvey I got cancer. I didn’t know that until, because they couldn’t do all the scans, after.”
A manicurist initially spotted the lump on Katie’s hand.
Two doctors dismissed it as harmless, but after a biopsy was carried out, Katie was told that the lump was leiomyosarcoma.
She also recalled the moment she told her mum Amy about her diagnosis back then, and said: “So when I phoned my mum, I just remember going: ‘Mum, just to let you know, they found cancer’. I was so flippant like that because so much had already happened to me by then.”
She continued: “It was just a: ‘Yeah, this has happened now’, ‘Yeah, that’s happened now’. I think about it and then I’m just like, ‘oh, well, you just got to get on with it.’”
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