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Abigail Nicholson & Matthew Fulton

Dad's 'world collapsed' with cancer diagnosis after noticing change in bowel habits

A dad whose pain got "out of control" knew something was wrong when his bowel habits rapidly changed. who is a father to two young kids began to feel unwell in June last year.

He described how his toilet habits began to change "considerably and rapidly" and how he was losing blood between 20 to 30 times each day before ending up in A&E after his symptoms and blood loss got out of hand, reports the Liverpool Echo.

Doctors performed an endoscopy expecting to find signs of Crohn’s disease but ended up sadly finding a tumour which would require surgery to remove it and his bowels analysed. He was diagnosed with stage two bowel cancer.

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