The mother-of-two has raised more than £3.7m since Monday, after she announced she had stopped having treatment.
Dame Deborah began co-presenting You, Me and the Big C alongside Lauren Mahon and BBC Radio 5 Live newsreader Rachael Bland in 2018, with the show earning praise for its frank discussion of cancer.
Dame Deborah has been praised for her no-nonsense approach to talking about cancer online, and has shared her experiences of treatment and daily life with her social media followers since her diagnosis in 2016.Instagram post The former deputy headteacher said her liver had stopped working over the past six months and doctors had advised that more treatment was "fruitless", adding her "body does not want to play ball".
She explained this meant their family home in London could remain home for her children without the "medical equipment scars" in their memories.
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