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Patients stories
Alison Crooks – Colorectal Cancer
“In March 2020, my friend Sharon was rushed to hospital after experiencing severe pain. She underwent emergency surgery and was then diagnosed with bowel cancer. She had two years of treatment, but sadly passed away in September 2022. I needed a focus …
David Birch – Colorectal Cancer
“Following a few tough years and the devastating loss of my father to cancer in 2020, I could feel my own health deteriorating but had put it down to perhaps stress-related IBS. I found myself feeling more tired than usual and needing the loo more freq …
Jane Clouting – Colorectal Cancer
“I retired at the end of 2018 after many years of a demanding career in the City of London. With David, my partner, we looked forward to our next 20 or so years enjoying our recently built house and travelling with me continuing horse riding and all ot …
Sharon Applin – Pelvic Exenteration
Sharon Applin, was diagnosed with a skin cancer in 2020 which was initially treated successfully with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. However, by the start of 2022 she began feeling unwell with bleeding, diarrhoea and severe pain. Tests confirmed she wa …
Sue Sherrington – NET
I grew up and lived by the sea in East Kent, which I loved. My NET story begins, as for many others, with awful diarrhoea for many years. Visits to GPs always resulted in an IBS diagnosis and a hospital appointment put it down to stress, but I wasn’t s …
Layla Stephen – NET
In the summer of 2008 I gave birth to my beautiful baby boy, Hadley. Everything was perfect – but just 6 weeks after Hadley was born I started to get severe stomach pains and sickness. Over the following 10 weeks I got steadily worse, lost over …
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