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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Kate Ng

The bowel cancer symptom George Alagiah wished he’d caught earlier

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BBC presenter George Alagiah has died at the age of 67, after nearly a decade of living with bowel cancer.

The newsreader was first diagnosed in 2014. He underwent several rounds of treatment after the cancer returned and spread over the last few years.

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