Yahoo News Jonnie Irwin updates his fans amid terminal cancer battle
The A Place In the Sun presenter has been diagnosed with lung cancer
Jonnie Irwin has revealed that is having hyperbaric oxygen therapy as he continues to battle cancer.
The A Place In The Sun star told fans last year that he had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and was determined to make the most of any time he had left with his wife Jess and their three sons - Rex, three, and two-year-old twins Rafa and Cormac.
Updating fans on Instagram, he shared that he was having the treatment, which the British Hyperbaric Association says "increases the amount of oxygen available to the body’s tissues".
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Irwin shared an image on his Instagram Story showing a walk way, writing: "And at the end of this walk..."
He then uploaded a second snap which showed the chamber for the therapy, captioned: "Is this..."
He added the hashtag "#hyperbaricoxygentherapy".
Irwin, 49, was diagnosed with the illness in August 2020 after his vision went blurry while he was shooting the Channel 4 property show.
He told Hello magazine that within a week of getting back home he was being given months to live.
The British Hyperbaric Association says that the therapy "is a treatment which significantly increases the amount of oxygen available to the body’s tissues, thereby creating an environment that is more conducive to healing certain conditions".
"It also affects other systems in our body that may provide additional benefits in certain specific conditions," the organisation said on its website.
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"This is done by placing the patient in a chamber where atmospheric pressure can be increased and controlled."
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