cancer
The test could cut the need for multiple tests and appointments.
June 17, 2009 was a normal day, warm and cloudy. I remember putting on jeans and my lucky jacket. I remember failing to eat a piece of toast. I remember being told: "You have breast cancer."
The physical changes I've experienced from cancer treatment were soul-destroying – but I refuse to let this disease strip away my identity.
"The risk increases even at low levels of drinking."
That's breakfast sorted.
Increasingly I see a system that is forcing people with cancer to jump through confusing hoops – and then wait five weeks – to access money to which they are entitled.
The 63-year-old BBC broadcaster will remain on television as much as possible.
From every direction, I am instructed on how to do cancer.
"I just had to get it out eventually. I was so angry with the world."
The 33 year old is receiving palliative care to live out his final days at home.