Wally Lewis has revealed he has been diagnosed with probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) – describing his shock after seeing scans of his brain that even made his doctor tear up.

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The rugby league legend – dubbed 'the King' – recently received the diagnosis after being concerned about memory loss for some time.

While comparing a recent scan of his head with previous scans, Lewis said he was "gobsmacked" by what he and his doctor saw.

"We had a look at the X-rays (scans), and I was expecting to see this just tiny little mark," he told ABC Radio Brisbane.

"I've had concussions before, earlier in my career, where a doctor would just say, 'look here's the spot here' and it would be a little bit different to the one that we've just recently had.

"I had the first one (scan) put up and the second one flashed up a couple of seconds later and it was enormously different. I just looked at it and could not believe the difference."

Lewis said his doctor had tears in her eyes while looking at the scan of his head.

"She just said, 'I don't think I've seen one like this' and just kept talking and saying that there had been other ones of concern," he said.

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