Emmerdale’s Liam Cavanagh (Jonny McPherson) has been anxiously awaiting the results of his PSA test to see if his recent symptoms are down to prostate cancer – and the results are in.

It’s been a tense wait for the doc having struggled with the role reversal of becoming a patient and not the one in the know.

He developed some troubling symptoms a few weeks ago that saw him caught short and peeing in the surgery sink as Manpreet Sharma (Rebecca Sarker) walked in and clocked his unusually urgent urge to urinate. She immediately knew what was up.

Pressure from both her and Claudette Anderson (Flo Wilson) – who also caught him peeing on the vegetable patch – saw him eventually and begrudgingly seek help. Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) world stopped when he sat her down and told her that he might have the big C.

But as Liam’s world continued to spin out of control, Chas became preoccupied with Charity Dingle’s (Emma Atkins) monumental dilemma that’s been seeing her contemplate aborting her baby, which she’s discovered is hers and Ross Barton’s (Michael Parr) and not Sarah Sugden (Katie Hill) and Jacob Gallagher’s (Joe-Warren Plant) surrogate baby.

As Chas focused on bullying her cousin into doing the right thing, Liam was left to agonise over his potential results alone.

But the wait is over, and he has the envelope in his hand.

Chas thankfully snaps out of her family bubble to be right by his side as he learns his fate.

What’s up, doc?

Jonny McPherson previously said of this story: ‘I think it’s one of the main reasons that soap is successful and it’s so particular to the genre of continuing drama that people that watch it get familiar with the characters over many, many years.

‘They watch them go through the everyday diagnoses, difficulties, deaths, marriage – all of these things they can relate to in a way that other genres don’t necessarily afford.

‘If someone’s watching the programme and has similar concerns and thinks, “I really should get that sorted,” then it’s a job well done.’