Cancer scare for Gary's wife.SKY Blues manager Gary McAllister's wife Denise is having hospital tests amid a new cancer scare. The Coventry player and manager missed his team's match against Wimbledon on Wednesday, has missed training and is due to miss the team's clash with Cardiff today. His agent Struan Marshall said: "Denise has been taken back in for a series of tests. Gary is sufficiently concerned for Denise that he did not turn up for the match (against Wimbledon) nor training the previous day." Mrs McAllister was diagnosed with cancer in 2000 when she was 34. She had a mastectomy mastectomy (măstĕk`təmē), surgical removal of breast tissue, usually done as treatment for breast cancer. There are many types of mastectomy. In general, the farther the cancer has spread, the more tissue is taken. , chemotherapy chemotherapy (kē'mōthĕr`əpē), treatment of disease with chemicals or drugs. One chemotherapeutic approach is the development of selectively toxic substances, i.e. and radiotherapy radiotherapy /ra·dio·ther·a·py/ (-ther´ah-pe) treatment of disease by means of ionizing radiation; tissue may be exposed to a beam of radiation, or a radioactive element may be contained in devices (e.g. and fought her way back to health. The couple have two children, Oliver, two, and eight-year-old Jake. On Thursday evening the family issued an appeal for their privacy to be respected. Breast cancer affects one in nine women in the UK. Over the last three years the couple have done fundraising for cancer charities. CAPTION(S): TESTS: Denise McAllister |
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