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  • I’m very much in favour of screening for prostate cancer, as you’d expect given that I was diagnosed with the incurable variety at age 60 and given a worst-case prognosis of two years. Being told that you’ve got cancer is devastating, being told it was incurable is indescribable. Then finding out that I’d probably hadContinue…

  • Movement Matters

    Cancer patients should be wrapped up in cotton wool, lie on the sofa and wait to die right? Wrong, so very very wrong! Thankfully the days when health care professionals discouraged cancer patients from exercising and their families wrapped them in cotton wool are a thing of the past and many cancer patients are stillContinue…

  • The first question I asked my oncologist wasn’t “How long have I got to live?” It was “Will I still be able to run?” which shows just how important running was in my life. When he said “Once the stress fractures (my runners “groin strain” was actually stress fractures of the pelvis where the cancerContinue…