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Louise Lazell

Young mum told cancer was 'pregnancy constipation' diagnoses self with Facebook £39 test

Dame Deborah James valiantly gave her all to raise awareness of bowel cancer, which causes 16,500 deaths a year in the UK.

It’s our fourth biggest cancer killer with 43,000 new cases annually, and yet far too many of us still believe it only affects over-50s.

TV personality and podcaster Deborah, who died of the disease last year at just 40, campaigned to change that – and today Louise Lazell hears the moving stories of other young bowel cancer sufferers echoing brave Deborah’s message to us all.

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