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Bowel Cancer Awareness Month – Bowel Cancer Metastasis
Mum suffered from secondary cancer, otherwise known as cancer metastasis.
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month – Record Store Day in New York
It’s bowel cancer awareness month, and I have been very fortunate to have spent the last few days in New York watching my favourite band The Alarm, and soaking up what this amazing city has to offer. The bowel bears were there in force, so there are going to be lots and lots of posts.
Bowel Cancer Awareness Months – News About The New Book
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
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month – Cancer Language
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
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month – Counting Down To New York
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
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month – The Chapter in Lives & Times on Mum
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
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month – The Stages of Cancer
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
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month – Check Your Poo T-Shirts
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
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month – The Slow Readers Club at SUB 89
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
