How tough can it be to stop drinking alcohol?
Nic Mitchell Nic Mitchell explores just how tough it can be to give up drinking alcohol after a lifetime working…
cancer-talk
So what is a colonoscopy all about?
If you’ve managed to survive all the radiotherapy, chemo, surgery and the CT or MRI scanning that goes…
Getting the diet right for bowel cancer survivors
Nic Mitchell marks Bowel Cancer Awareness Month by looking at getting the diet right after treatment in a…
Three years on from cancer – lessons learnt!
AMAZINGLY it is just over three years since I was recovering at home after having my operation to…
Time to end the bowel cancer screening lottery
April is an important month for both me and those campaigning to lower the bowel cancer screening age.…
Helping cancer patients through the dark patches
More and more people are surviving cancer, but as I mentioned in my last blog ‘You are not…
My first bowel cancer anniversary !
As bonfire night falls, I’m reminded that exactly a year ago I was sitting down with a doctor…
Handling your cancer operation and the after effects!
This has proved the hardest blog to write in my ‘Cancer-talk’ series because many of the things I…
What’s radiotherapy and chemo like?
I hope this series of ‘Cancer-talk’ blogs is as helpful to non-cancer patients as it is to those…
Discovering you have got cancer
Towards the end of 2014, I discovered I had joined the growing number of people in the UK…