X Factor winner Matt Cardle has revealed he was diagnosed with cancer as a baby.
In October, Cardle's mother first revealed the singer's battle an aggressive Wilms' tumour when he was 2-years-old. Cardle discusses the illness in his new book My Story, which is being serialised in The Sun newspaper.
"I was a healthy baby, but when I was 18 months old my parents discovered I had a rare form of cancer called Wilms' tumour," he said. "I had a rash on my foot and my mum, being a bit neurotic at the time, took me to hospital.
"They did some tests and found I had a tumour on my kidney, which was pretty savage."
He continued: "I had to have chemotherapy and all of my hair fell out. I then got something called adhesions, which is where scar tissue kind of messes up your insides.
"That ended up being more dangerous than the actual cancer, because I got blood poisoning, and I spent a lot of time in hospital."
"I was there for about a year in all and it must have been horrendous for them," he said. "Luckily, I made a full recovery and I've been fine ever since. In fact, if you have a kidney taken out at such a young age, the other grows to compensate so you get one really powerful kidney."
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