12 h. ago Docs thought my back pain was a running injury and sent me to physio – now I have just 9% chance of surviving cancer

CLARA Cirks was just 30 years old when she was told she had a nine per cent chance of surviving. The first clues she was sick with an incurable disease was back pain that she had been reassured was linked to running, and she hadn’t wanted to keep bothering her GP. But with other symptoms...

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26 h. ago I decided to adopt a child as a single person after surviving stage four cancer

Jenna faced barriers in her adoption journey being a single person but as soon as she saw her now daughter she knew she was the one

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6 d. ago 'I survived cervical cancer but life changed forever when doctors gave me painkillers'

Stevie Davis has detailed her experience of overcoming several major battles in her life including those with cervical cancer and an addiction to the painkiller co-codamol

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9 d. ago Cancer survivor 'kicked out' of hospital before potentially fatal condition found

"I grabbed that doctor's hand and begged him not to discharge me. I genuinely thought I was going to die with the pain I was in. You wouldn't treat a dog like that."

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1 week ago Cancer survivor 'kicked out' hospital in agony before medics found 'life

Newlywed Tracy Jardine, from Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire, said she 'begged' a doctor not to discharge her from University Hospital Wishaw.

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1 week ago Scrapping plans for nationwide prostate tests 'will cost lives', cancer survivors and campaigners warn

Reports emerged last week the UK National Screening Committee will advise the Government to dismiss proposals to offer men most at risk of the disease an NHS test due to cost concerns.

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