Susie Dent of COUNTDOWN has said that a TV makeup artist advised her to have a mark under her eye checked after she experienced a terrible cancer scare.

A year after the mark originally emerged, the 58-year-old TV writer revealed how the doctor eventually confirmed skin cancer.

While speaking with Chris Evans on the Virgin Radio breakfast show, who had received the all-clear from cancer himself, she revealed for the first time her struggle.

Susie, a lexicographer and linguist, admitted: “I had one under my eye a few years ago. And all that it felt like was a tiny cut.

Therefore, it was a linear injury that simply refused to heal. And I just continued applying numerous types of lotion to it.

I had it for much too long, so. It was mine for roughly a year.

“My doctor warned me, ‘I’m going to utter the word carcinoma, but don’t panic.

Then they removed it, sort of excising it. I therefore have a small scar under my eye.

Since this one doesn’t spread, we were quite fortunate.

I truly only thought, “I have cut my eye,” and I forgot about it for the following week.

“I think you should get that checked out,” my makeup artist advised.

Carcinoma is a type of cancer that develops in the epithelial tissue that lines your skin, internal organ passages, and most of your organs.

The majority of malignancies that affect your head and neck, skin, breasts, kidney, liver, lungs, pancreas, and prostate gland are carcinomas.

“Just be careful,” Susie said, “because they sometimes just look like little cuts and don’t always look like moles or other things that you would expect.”

It comes after Chris, 57, disclosed last week that he had learned the excellent news that doctors had successfully removed the malignant mole from his leg, leaving no leftover tissue behind.