Five years ago, Dr Anisha Patel was diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer - and ever since, her life hasn't been the same.
Though she is in remission from the bowel cancer, and has been for four and a half years, she claims that life after cancer can be just as difficult as having it.
The 44-year-old GP who lives in Surrey with her family has been very open about her experiences with the killer disease, evening writing a book, called Everything you hoped you'd never need to know about bowel cancer.