Rhod Gilbert says he’s received first clear scan after cancer diagnosis

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Rhod Gilbert has said he’s received his first clear cancer scan for the first time since undergoing treatment. The Welsh comedian, 55, who revealed he had stage four head and neck cancer in July 2022, described learning the disease hadn’t spread as “the best day of my life”. The comedian told Radio Times: “I was back on the road earlier this year, I got a call to say my latest scan had shown the cancer was in the areas they knew about, but it wasn’t in my lungs or my brain.” Soon after, he had his first clear scan. “I thought, ‘It will give me something to do’.” Gilbert said it all began when “a tumour popped up on my neck” on the day of a fundraising walk for the Velindre Cancer Centre, and the following months of treatment meant he “wasn’t well enough even to read or watch television”.