Life was trucking along beautifully. I was 39, fit, healthy. Then I read a story about a woman’s diagnosis with bowel cancer. Read more:

Jonny had always been fit and healthy. He ate well, exercises, and looks after himself.

A couple of thousand dollars cost to personally fund a colonoscopy is a small price to pay for an early diagnosis. Read more here:

I was fortunate that my GP was thorough and followed up on my test results.

I was active and health conscious, and I turned to Dr Google when I thought my symptoms were down to food intolerances. Read more:

Anna was fit and healthy and didn’t think she fitted the profile of a bowel cancer patient.

Despite displaying all of the symptoms of bowel cancer, I was put in the box of “young, fit and healthy”.