'If my bowel cancer was found any later I'd be terminal, Dame Deborah will save lives'
20.05.2022 - 16:35
/ ok.co.uk
Mum-of-two Rebecca counts herself "hugely fortunate" that she beat stage three bowel cancer after revealing it could've been a very different story if she had been diagnosed just one month later. Rebecca, who is mum to William, seven, and Florence, nine, with husband Adrian, 50, has a family history with the disease as her mum suffered from double breast cancer, her grandmother had lymphatic cancer and grandfather had lung cancer.
But it was still a shock when she was diagnosed after months of challenging doctors' diagnoses of anaemia and simple colds. With the looming results of her annual check up, which is done to ensure her body remains free of the cancer, Rebecca has found Dame Deborah James' story both difficult and inspiring to hear.
Here, the 42 year old speaks out on Deborah's incredible campaign to raise money and awareness as she recalls her own cancer journey... Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter It was the summer of 2017, I was 38, and I just had a period of time where I didn't quite feel like myself.
I'd suffered on and off for a number of years with what I could only describe as cystitis-type pain – but it was never diagnosed as that.That was the initial trigger that my body just wasn't quite right. My symptoms were put down to being a female nearing 40 and having heavy periods – which I wasn't having – but they just seemed to latch on to this story.Then suddenly in early 2018, I noticed I'd lost 1.5 stone and I couldn't put my finger on why.
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