Mark Steel: 'I have cancer and it feels like there's a leopard in my house'
The comedian was booked in for a biopsy after noticing a neck abnormality. Standups are used to leaving audiences jolly but he could not share his diagnosis without causing worry I felt an actual breeze flutter, blowing my hair. The consultant had told me he was confident I had throat cancer that had spread into the lymph glands. Joyfully, I held his hand, and looked up to the heavens like a South American footballer…