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Courtney Pochin

GP who survived bowel cancer shares key signs and crucial advice she tells her patients

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.

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