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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Deborah James: Bowelbabe in Her Own Words on BBC2 review - this documentary may well save lives

After her diagnosis with Stage 4 bowel cancer in 2016, Deborah James refused to be beaten. “Hideous” statistics put her chances of survival at less than 10 per cent and her life would soon became an exhausting cycle of chemotherapy, surgery and hospital visits. And yet, she remained defiant.

“I have hope. If you don’t have hope, then what have you got?”

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