Labour MP Chris Bryant reveals skin cancer in lung diagnosis

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I was helping in the Kingswood by-election when the doctor rang me - on my birthday actually - to tell me I’m really sorry to say that the latest scan has shown up something in your right lung.” open image in gallery Mr Bryant at the Kingswood by-election in February when he received his diagnosis He will now have to undergo immunotherapy after having the cancer removed. “It’s not as tough as chemotherapy but thank goodness for the innovations that doctors have brought in, I have every hope of being completely cancer-free for the rest of my life.” The development comes five years after he was first diagnosed with melanoma in 2019. open image in gallery The Labour MP for Rhondda was given a 40 per cent chance of surviving the year in 2019 In the video, Mr Bryant recounted his initial diagnosis: “Just over five years ago my husband spotted a strange mole on the back of my head, and I decided to take it to my doctor to have it checked out. Thank goodness I did because it turned out to be melanoma, a particularly vicious form of skin cancer, and a late one at that, Stage 3b.” The politician also said that his announcement has coincided with melanoma month as he urged people to “take skin cancer seriously”. “This is melanoma month, please please please take skin cancer seriously.