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22nd August 2023
10:32am BST
His diagnoses comes four years after he went to the doctor with concerns about skin cancer, Sky News reports.
In 2019, Evans spoke about how the high UV levels that summer prompted him to got to the doctor.
But he was told he had “nothing to worry about”, and that he should get checked for the condition once a year.
He explained: “I went and had a few marks on my body inspected by a skin expert before Christmas and she said, ‘You need to come and see me again, just because of your complexion.'”
According to the NHS, there are two common types of non-melanoma skin cancers, with the term “non-melanoma” distinguishing these types from the less common skin cancer, melanoma, which is more serious.
The most common types of non-melanoma are basal cell carcinoma (BCC), which starts in cells which line the bottom of the epidermis, and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) which starts in cells lining the top of the epidermis.
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