OHMYGOSSIP — Tracey Emin is in remission after being diagnosed with cancer, and she is hoping to “get past Christmas”.
The 57-year-old artist had to go under the knife to have part of her vagina removed as well as her uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, lymph nodes, part of her colon, and her urethra, after doctors found a large tumour in her bladder in June and diagnosed her with squamous cell cancer, which is “known as bad cancer”.
She was operated on for six-and-a-half hours by 12 surgeons and now has a stoma bag, but fortunately the cancer hadn’t spread to her lymph nodes – if so surgeons feared she could be dead before Christmas.
In an interview published in The Times newspaper, for this weekend’s Sunday Times Magazine, she said: “Someone said to me, ‘What was the biggest realisation you had during lockdown?’
“And I said, ‘That I had full-blown f****** cancer.’
“It was squamous cell cancer, which means it’s really rapid, really aggressive. It’s known as bad cancer.”
Asked about her ambition now, she said: “Well, it’s a lot different from what it was before.
“To get past Christmas would be a good one.”
Tracey’s surgeon planned to take all of her bladder out for the cancer to be gone, but she admitted it “didn’t turn out like that”.  
Speaking about what her surgeon said to her prior to the op, she explained: “He said, ‘So we’re going to remove your bladder and we’re going to remove your uterus, your fallopian tubes, your ovaries, your lymph nodes, part of your colon, your urethra.’
“I said to him, ‘Oh my God, anything else?’ And he said, ‘Yes, part of your vagina.’ And I went, ‘Oh f****** hell.’ ”
Before going under the knife, Tracey stayed up for 24 hours rewriting her will with her solicitor, and she sent an email to around 70 pals insisting they do not contact her.
It read: “Do not contact me. Don’t call me. Don’t text me. Don’t email me. If you want to know how I am, call the studio. If you do contact me, you will not be on this mailing list any more.”
Tracey now admits she regrets spending “so much time drinking and smoking”, as well as “partying”.
After finding out she had cancer, she “was quite philosophical” and spent a day with her twin brother in Margate, south east England, and only told him about her diagnosis at the end of the day.
She said: “I said to him, ‘Look, you know we’ve spent all day together. Had I told you at the beginning of the day, you’d have been upset all day. But I didn’t tell you, so that shows it’s going to make no difference to anything for the moment. And that’s how you’ve got to think about it, because that’s how I’m thinking about it. So don’t cry.’ ”

Source: VacationHunter.Online
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