#YouMeBigC: Deborah’s story
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
“I have the poo cancer... There's nothing pink about my cancer, it's just brown!” : Deborah James, aka Bowel Babe, talks about her stage four bowel cancer diagnosis with Rachael and Lauren.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Five Live. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh my god. |
| 0:04.0 | Thanks for downloading this teaser for the You Me and the Big Seat podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | This is Dev4Story. |
| 0:12.0 | I have the poo cancer. |
| 0:14.0 | The glam cancer. |
| 0:16.0 | I have the glam cancer. |
| 0:17.0 | There's nothing pink about my cancer. It's just brown. |
| 0:20.0 | So I'm 36 years old. |
| 0:22.0 | I was diagnosed just over a year ago, just before Christmas. |
| 0:26.0 | Nothing like a Christmas present. |
| 0:28.0 | To be told that after six months of a change of bowel habits, |
| 0:32.0 | basically where I was I was pooing blood, I'm going to be very frank |
| 0:36.0 | because I think one of the biggest problems is that people are not frank enough about |
| 0:40.0 | the symptoms that led to their diagnosis and then as a result it holds up their diagnosis. |
| 0:45.0 | So I was pooing blood and eventually got diagnosed with a 6.5 cm Chima |
| 0:50.0 | at my bum. |
| 0:52.0 | You know, I joke about it but when it happened the room fell silent. |
| 0:56.0 | I was kind of there for a camera, you know, up my back side. |
| 1:00.0 | To be rest, you know, to be told that everything was fine. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, that's what you always expect. |
| 1:06.0 | You're always expecting on me. |
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