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Hinch may have 12 months to live

Broadcaster Derryn Hinch says he has just 12 months to live unless he receives a liver transplant.

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Radio broadcaster and former TV current affairs host Derryn Hinch has told his radio audience doctors have given him just 12 months to live unless he receives a liver transplant.

A day after appearing in the High Court in a bid to beat jail for publicly naming convicted sex offenders, Hinch was told by doctors that further surgery was no longer an option.

“Some good news and some bad news. The bad news is it is a bad cancer. The good news is the chemotherapy beads have killed off some of the cancerous growths. Some of those satellites around the mother ship,” he said.

“Bad news, it didn’t kill them all and I’ll have more chemotherapy very soon.

“And the worse news is that they have totally ruled out a resection operation –where they would remove 40% of my cancerous liver and rely on the rest to keep me functioning while regenerating. That’s not an option.

“That means a liver transplant is my only hope of long term survival. I asked my doctor quite bluntly today: Without treatment, without a transplant, how long have I got. And he said ‘12 months’.”

Hinch, who hosted current affairs shows Hinch on both Seven and TEN is now on a Pre-Liver Assessment Timetable.

Today he soldiered on with his 3AW radio show citing “business as usual” except for tests and treatments.

He currently faces five charges of breaching suppression orders by naming the two sex offenders on the steps of the Victorian Parliament.

Source: Herald Sun, 3AW

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  4. My best wishes to Derryn that he can beat this terrible disease.

    While I may not always agree with Derryn’s opinions, I respect and admire the passion and commitment he brings to his causes.

  6. Not a fan of the bloke or his opinions but death (and a painful one at that) isn’t deserved.

    Perhaps he can take up the organ donation cause? He’d be branded selfish I bet, but anything that gets more donors is worth it!

  7. Poor fellow, what a horrible fate. Best of luck to him.
    Whatever you may think of him as a broadcaster (and I’m frankly indifferent because I’ve never actually listened to him) you wouldn’t wish cancer on your worst enemy.

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