revealed his bowel diagnosis on BBC Breakfast, which he used to present with Sophie, and urged people not to "die of embarrassment" over getting tested."I went to hospital for a couple of days but they didn't say it was cancer, they said it was scar tissue from a previous operation.
"I had no symptoms but thought I should get a test, it came back positive. I had a colonoscopy, when they put a camera on a stick up your bottom - it's not nearly as bad as it sounds, and they give you lots of drugs. From that they found a tumour.PA:Press Association Jeremy has spoken candidly about his bowel cancer and urges people to get tested and not "die of embarrassment""It's not the thing you choose but I'm confident that I'm getting very good medical treatment and I'll be OK."He added: "The key thing is to get tested. I've told all my friends to get to their doctors for a test.
"Bowels and poo are not the normal things people want to talk about, but actually it's part of all our lives. "If you feel a bit embarrassed and you leave it too long - a gastroenterologist tweeted me this morning to say, 'tell them don't die of embarrassment, for God's sake."