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The Guardian - UK
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Woman says Deborah James’s bowel cancer campaigning helped save her life

Lyndsey Ainscough with her family, husband Christian, daughter Perry and sons Alfie (right) and Spencer.
Lyndsey Ainscough with her family, husband Christian, daughter Perry and sons Alfie (right) and Spencer. Photograph: Karen Wright Photography/Christie NHS Foundation Trust/PA

A woman has told how the health campaigner Dame Deborah James helped save her life from deadly bowel cancer.

Lyndsey Ainscough, from Leigh in Greater Manchester, only decided to seek advice after seeing James on television shortly before she died.

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