Ben B. Brave

I was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer at 28 with no family history. This blog explores aspects of bot-bot cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery.

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July 23, 2011

Adaptation

Surgery went well. In addition to losing my rectum, sigmoid and descending colon I underwent a partial vasectomy. The tumor ended up not bei...

July 1, 2011

Media Release

Friday 1 July 2011 EXPAT SAYS NO TO 40 CENT BEER, YES TO DRY JULY BEIJING–In a country where toeing the party line is the norm, one China...

June 27, 2011

Short-term bum

I learnt something in high-school biology that has shaped all my subsequent thinking about the human body. It was this: the body can be thou...

June 24, 2011

From Oz with love

Dr Oz has had two polyps removed from his colon in the space of a year, one of them precancerous. He recently wrote about it in TIME magazi...

June 23, 2011

Pooology

I have been comfortable with poo ever since I realised that playing with it was a big part of a zoologist's life. Giant panda poo Y...

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