cancer fundraising
Over the next few days during bowel cancer awareness month, a small army of Stop Bowel Cancer Bears will be descending upon New York for the 2019 Gathering featuring Mike Peters and The Alarm. The first travellers from the UK arrived yesterday, and bowel bear BB went out for dinner with Ali and Matt Saunders,
Today I can reveal that the new book is finished with the completion of the final chapter, which has involved me talking to, and corresponding with Nicole Cooper in Melbourne, who has stage 4 bowel cancer. She is another amazing person who I’ve met on social media, and who has given their support to this
The language surround cancer is something that I have to confess I knew very little about, especially its impact on people living with cancer. In the Lives & Times book I published in 2015, and when Mum was still alive, I referred her ‘battle with bowel cancer’, and subsequently ‘losing her fight’ after she died. I
In a few days time I will be flying to New York for a weekend of live music with The Alarm. Last May I made the same trip, and managed to keep the raising bowel cancer awareness theme going throughout the weekend. As we are currently in bowel cancer awareness month, this time will be
Today’s post during bowel cancer awareness month is the chapter from the Lives & Times bowel cancer fundraising book on my mum, who sadly died of bowel cancer in August 2016. Mum lived to see the book published, and in fact shed a few tears when she saw it for the first time. This was one of
There are four common stages of bowel cancer numbered from 1 to 4. The TNM staging system is as follows. TNM system T (tumour) – how far the tumour has grown through the bowel wall N (nodes) – whether the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes M (metastases) – whether the cancer has spread (metastasised) to other
One of the symptoms of bowel cancer is blood in your poo. We don’t like talking about poo, but if we continue to talk about it and raise awareness about bowel cancer, then it could help to improve early detection rates, and improve survival rates. The main symptoms of bowel cancer are… Bleeding from your
I would like to give a massive thanks to The Slow Readers Club for doing a photo with my stop bowel cancer bear after their gig at SUB 89 in Reading last night. The band were signing merchandise and I grabbed the opportunity, and I was very grateful,for their support. My mum died in August
