Delivering a cancer diagnosis to a patient is never easy.
But it’s particularly dreadful when the news is especially shocking given their clean bill of health.
Sadly, this is the case for increasing numbers of my bowel cancer patients. They are young, otherwise perfectly fit, juggling busy working days with young children, and often suffering virtually no symptoms.
‘Why did this happen to me?’ they ask.
For many, the answer indeed remains a mystery; with researchers racing to uncover exactly what it is in our modern environment that’s fuelling gut tumours.
But my biggest frusration is that, for thousands, there is a clear culprit. The problem
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