A man was diagnosed with the same condition his mum had just recovered from after his stomach made "churning noises".
For two months, dad-of-three Keith Dawber, 55, felt "sore" and "uncomfortable" when going to the toilet, before noticing he was passing blood as well. He said: "Some days [my stomach] felt like it was turning over a bit, you know, little churning noises in the stomach. But because we were in lockdown at that time, I didn't go to the doctors initially."
Keith, from St Helens, tried over-the-counter treatments on what he thought might have been "piles or haemorrhoids", but these didn't work. Eventually he sought help from a GP, who sent him for a colonoscopy, which led to a diagnosis of bowel cancer. The telecoms worker said: "I suspected it. I had it in the back of my mind, so I was half prepared for the worst.
