Lauren Laverne diagnosed with blood and bone marrow disorder

Lauren Laverne diagnosed with blood and bone marrow disorderImage caption, Lauren Laverne hosts the weekday mid-morning show on BBC Radio 6 MusicByIan YoungsCulture reporterPublished1 minute agoBroadcaster Lauren Laverne has revealed she has been diagnosed with a blood and bone marrow disorder that can lead to blood cancer, but stressed that "at the moment I feel OK and don't need treatment".The BBC One Show, Desert Island Discs and 6 Music host, 48, wrote on Instagram: "I've been diagnosed with something called smouldering myeloma (yes that is a weird name and no I'd never heard of it either)."It's an asymptomatic blood and bone marrow disorder that in some people can develop into blood cancer."The diagnosis comes two years after Laverne was diagnosed with an unspecified cancer, and she said in November 2024 that she had received the "all clear" following treatment.Smouldering myeloma has no symptoms and does not require treatment but can develop into myeloma, a type of blood cancer.Laverne said the risk of that happening in her case was "pretty low".She said most people of her age "have no idea" they have smouldering myeloma. "It tends to be cancer survivors like me who are diagnosed early as we're so carefully monitored," she wrote."It has nothing to do with my previous illness or my recent surgery, it's just one of those things."'It's been a lot'She continued: "It is a chronic condition - no cure yet - and it does mean my immune system is a bit compromised, so I will need to take good care of myself and I will be carefully monitored with blood tests, MRIs and bone marrow biopsies (which I have recently discovered are even less fun than they sound)."It's been a lot, especially coming less than two years after my last diagnosis, but l know that seeing others in the public eye cope with comparable situations has helped me, so I thou...