Jade Goody awaits cancer op results

4 March 2009 06:41am

Cancer-battling Jade Goody is recovering in London's Royal Marsden Hospital, awaiting the results of emergency surgery.

The reality TV star's publicist Max Clifford said the results of the operation to relieve pain in her bowel could determine whether she lived beyond the end of the month. "The prognosis depends on how she responds to surgery and how beneficial it is. The next 24 hours will be critical," he told the Daily Mirror.

"If her bowel is cleared and she's able to eat properly and regain some strength, she could live much longer than that."

Jade, 27, was visited in hospital by husband Jack Tweed - hours after he was convicted of assaulting a taxi driver. Magistrates adjourned sentencing until March 26 so reports could be prepared on Tweed's background. The 21-year-old's lawyer told Epping Magistrates Court that Jade had been given less than four weeks to live.

Mr Clifford said Jade had been with her new husband overnight at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

He said: "Jack spent the night with her. He got permission from the Probation Service to do that."

He added that he did not know when Jade would leave the hospital. "She is due to leave when she is well enough and that could be today or next week. When she feels better, she will go home as soon as she can. When the pain goes."

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