Holly Willoughby 'can't bear it' as she struggles through ITV This Morning viewer's emotional call

Holly Willoughby couldn't hide her sympathy for one of the callers who phoned This Morning for advice today. The presenter was back at the helm of the ITV daytime show on Tuesday (September 27) alongside Phillip Schofield.

They were joined by the show's resident agony aunt Deidre Sanders but instead of her appearing just for her usual phone-in, she sat on the famous sofa to chat to the hosts about her own diagnosis after discovering she has cancer. The 77-year-old revealed her health diagnosis in her column for The Sun.

She explained how she sought advice from her GP over the summer after she started 'feeling achy' and after realising that the tension she often feels in her shoulders had spread to her right breast. Two weeks before going on holiday, she spoke to a doctor about her concerns, before seeing an advanced nurse practitioner in person.

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A mammogram and an ultrasound scan showed that something wasn't quite right and she was booked in for a biopsy straight after her trip away, discovering that the cells were malignant. Deidre explained how she has tiny carcinoma, a cluster of malignant cells in a duct in her right breast and that she is set to undergo a lumpectomy this Saturday.

Deidre also explained how she missed out on having a breast screening for almost a decade as she was among a cohort of several thousand women who, by error, did not get invited for a mammogram when they turned 70. Members of the public aged 71 or older, are not automatically invited for breast screenings.

However, they can request one once every three years by contacting their local breast screening unit for an