In mid October 2016 my GP arranged for me to have scans of my lower and upper bowels as I had not had a solid stool for several weeks. There was nothing in these scans to show any trouble BUT the upper level of the scan of my upper bowel did show a shadow on my left lung. After further scans and a CT biopsy this shadow was diagnosed as a cancer - the size of which is about the size of my thumbnail. It had not spread elsewhere.

I was referred to St Lake's Cancer Centre in Guildford, Surrey and therapy by way of SABR is about to commence. I have been advised that the lesion is "eminently curable".

I consider myself very fortunate that by pure chance my tumor was "caught in the bud"!