Now More and More of Us Are Surviving and Telling the Tale ; the Writer and Grandad Who Beat Bowel Cancer to See a Special First Birthday

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BOWEL cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK but can be treated if it is caught early. Gazette writer KEITH NEWTON won his battle with the disease. Today he shares his story to mark Bowel Cancer Awareness Month.

I WENT to work this week. Only for two days and for the first time in a long time, but it is a start and, after two shouting matches with the Grim Reaper, another small step on the road to a sort of normality.

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Now More and More of Us Are Surviving and Telling the Tale ; the Writer and Grandad Who Beat Bowel Cancer to See a Special First Birthday

I am not the man I used to be. I see that every day when I look in the mirror. I have much less hair though people keep insisting it is regrowing.

More significantly, I have had great chunks of my inside removed but I a...

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