She bravely revealed all about the operation, prompted by a cancer scare, in an interview with myself on yesterday's front page.

He has also survived a quadruple heart bypass and a cancer scare.

She had a thyroid cancer scare in 2012 and has had to cancel several official visits abroad on doctors' orders.

He had also been a heavy smoker but gave up after the cancer scare and became a prominent anti-smoking campaigner.

Even the cancer scare was not enough to shake his obsession with the show.

Earlier this week, another food scare hit the headlines.

Or the subject of the latest food scare?

Consumers can be forgiven for feeling confused as they deal with a barrage of food scare stories.

In the meantime, we can take some comfort from last week's food scare.

Food scares used to irritate me beyond reason.

On another occasion a 'scare campaign' was suggested to win over voters.

In the process, they will be effectively admitting their scare campaign was a pack of lies.

They believe they will be able to repeat 1975 and run a scare campaign based on false fears of political and economic isolation.

The previous scare campaign, in 2004, featured a cigarette filled with fat to dramatise the effect that smoking has on the arteries.

The party mounted an effective scare campaign - denounced as a lie by the government - saying that the coalition was planning to privatise the health service.

Lenders often simply use statutory demands as a scare tactic: most are not followed through to bankruptcy.

One scare tactic that especially en-raged opponents was his habit of announcing in advance the round in which the contest would end-usually in a knockout.

It's a good scare tactic.

So we should regard their current scare tactic - using the word 'critical' as a doctor might of a patient at extreme risk - with something less than complete respect.

It was a scare tactic and luckily it worked.

In other words, both campaigns are determined to scare voters.

The unknown may scare voters otherwise tempted to leave.

Was this an attempt to scare voters or simply a reality check ahead of an irrevocable decision?

And they said he had resorted to trying to scare voters into accepting the status quo.

But he had to survive a scare in the final lap, when he tripped passing a back-marker, to achieve his place in the record books.

They survived the scare, and headed into extra time.

She survived a scare in the warm-up when she crashed through a hurdle on a practice run and fell headlong on the track.

Like all good sides, they are surviving the scares that come with a league as frantic, as chaotic, as this.