One in three Kiwis will be affected by a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime - and ZM’s Jam Packed Workday host Georgia Burt says it still feels “surreal” that she’s one of them. She and her fellow NZME radio hosts are taking part in a fundraiser for the Cancer Society this Daffodil Day to help other Kiwis going through cancer. Here, she tells the Herald what it means to her to be part of it.
Just over two years ago, ZM radio host Georgia Burt was diagnosed with myxoid liposarcoma - a type of cancer that starts in the fat cells. “I had found this lump on the side of my left thigh and I sort of thought at the time I was going a bit hard at the gym [and] I hadn’t stretched the muscles and rolled it out, so I didn’t really do too much about it,” she tells the Herald . The following month, she went to the GP to get a different injury checked out, thinking she’d popped a hernia, and pointed out the lump.
An ultrasound found she’d pulled an ab muscle, but it also showed the 3x7cm lump in her leg was “bright white”. A few days later “I was at work on air and about halfway through the day I got a phone call from my doctor saying, ‘this is what it could be ..
. we’re going to need to refer you’,” Burt recalls..
