Jade Goody has cancer

Tearful Jade Goody told of her torment at facing cancer doctors alone today - as her boyfriend starts a jail term.
Jade, 27, is set to learn her only chance of beating cervical cancer is a hysterectomy and chemo, leaving her unable to have more kids.
But the Big Brother star is distraught at battling it without Jack, 21 - given 18 months for battering a boy of 16 with a golf club.
She told friends: "My world's fallen apart. I thought it couldn't get worse after cancer but now they've locked up Jack. He's been my rock."
His lawyer pleaded with the judge: "This lady has a long road ahead of pain and distress. She needs her man to help her."
But after their pleas fell on deaf ears, a pal of the TV star, 27, revealed: "Jade hoped the judge would be lenient in the circumstances and was devastated when Jack got 18 months.
"Things will be harder for her and the boys without him. But she's being very brave about her illness and is determined to do everything she can to beat it.
"However, Jack being jailed couldn't have come at a worse time. He's been a huge comfort for her over the past few weeks."
The male model and a friend were locked up after they battered Daniel Steele, 16, up to 15 times with a golf club - hitting him so hard the head broke off.
Jade was not in court but sent a letter to the judge.
Hours before yesterday's sentence, she told TV viewers for the first time how she is facing up to her life-threatening illness.
Doctors are today expected to explain to her she must have a hysterectomy and chemotherapy that will leave her unable to have more children.
She told GMTV's Fiona Phillips: "I've got to go tomorrow to find out what treatment I need.
"The doctor has told me over the phone but he wants to sit me down and tell me step-by-step because it's quite sensitive. But my first thought was cancer, chemo, death because that's all I know of it."

Jade is due to have her op in two weeks. And she told viewers how she was tested for cancer four times, but doctors gave her the all-clear and sent her away with painkillers for period pain.
She said: "I was in hospital a week and they didn't do anything because they didn't know what it was, even though it was the fourth time I'd been there.
"They did a belly scan and everything was fine, even my blood, so they said it was either a bad period or stress. In the end I began to feel really frustrated, like they were insulting my intelligence. I thought they thought I was being a hypochondriac and lying about it."
Jade was told she had cancer as she appeared on India's version of Big Brother last month. She immediately returned to the UK and she and Jack patched up their on/off relationship.
The pair now live together in Essex with her sons Freddy, four this month, and Bobby Jack, five, from a previous relationship. Jade has been bowled over by the way Jack has rallied around her.
She said recently: "He's amazed me with how good he's been when I've needed him.
"When I was in hospital he took all my washing to his mum's house."
Jack has accompanied her to consultants and has said: "It's completely devastating. Jade is all over the place."
Jack found TV fame when he starred with Jade in 2007's Celebrity Big Brother, marred by the Shilpa Shetty race row.
He and pal James Mattock, 29, appeared in Chelmsford crown court, Essex, yesterday over the 2006 golf club attack.
Prosecutor said the pair were intent on "teaching a lesson" to their victim after he and other youths had earlier hurled abuse and scuffled with them.
Recorder Mark Lucraft QC ignored pleas from Jade and Jack's lawyer Andre de Moller and jailed both for 18 months.
The judge said: "You went with one purpose - to attack and have a fight.
"Hitting someone about the head with a weapon is extremely dangerous."

Jade Goody will undergo a hysterectomy this morning – which will last eight hours.

The reality star was diagnosed with cervical cancer last month.

Yesterday, she checked into London’s Royal Marsden Hospital with mum Jackiey Budden by her side.

‘Jade is terrified — she’s not in a good state at all,’ a source tells The Sun. ‘She has been putting on a brave face for her sons.
'But the doctors told her that the operation will take about eight hours and that has really scared her.’

Jade, 27, has left sons Bobby, 5, and Freddie, 3, in the care of their dad Jeff Brazier, 29.

When Jade checks out, Jackiey is expected to move in with the Big Brother star to help care for the boys.

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Jade Goody has apparently been told her cervical cancer has spread.

The Big Brother star underwent an eight-hour operation to remove her womb at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London at the weekend.
And it is thought cancer was discovered in a ligament muscle behind her uterus during surgery.
‘The hysterectomy was successful but they found the cancer had spread,’ an insider tells the Sunday Mirror.

‘They had thought it was at Stage Two and contained in the womb. But it is worse than that.
'It’s not the news doctors were hoping for but they believe they have removed all the cancerous cells and she has a decent chance of making a full recovery.’
Jade, 27, will now undergo an intensive nine-week course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

She will be kept in hospital for 14 days before being allowed to return home to see her sons Bobby, 5, and Freddie, 3 - who have been staying with their dad Jeff Brazier, 29.