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Less than 3 years since diagnosis
Interview 09  

Interview 09

Age at Interview: 65
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 64
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with colorectal cancer 2000. Under went surgery, temporary colostomy and chemotherapy. Colostomy irreversible after 15 months.


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He urges people to seek advice early and to insist on further tests if no convincing diagnosis is made.

 



Well I would say that you must react as fast as you can, as quickly as you can, see all the eminent people who are necessary, even if you have to start screaming and shouting to get yourself seen to properly.

I think the worst part about the whole deal with bowel cancer is that if you don't get bleeding, people don't think they've got bowel cancer. I never had bleeding.

I think one can walk about with it for a long, long time before you realise what you've got, that's the worst part about it really and then obviously as you know if you walk about with it for too long it can be too late. But you know one doesn't know and it's a difficult thing and I think, not blaming anybody, but I think the doctors as far as they're concerned are not positive enough.

When one's complaining with diarrhoea and they see that you're anaemic, they should all really jump to conclusions that maybe you have got something wrong, not just pass it off as anaemia.

If one's got anaemia there's a reason for it, not just left to say that you need to eat more greens and you know that's right.

So I haven't got the needle to anybody, maybe I've got the needle to myself for not seeing to myself quicker, you know when I was feeling rough. I just thought I was very, very tired.

But it just shows you, you know, that you've got to be more, more positive about yourself and maybe even if it's cry wolf, it's not such a terrible thing either.
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