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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August 25, 2011

Another 'to do'

I completely missed a fundamental piece of ground-breaking research into colorectal cancer. I need to get married I already drink foul p...

August 18, 2011

Full circle

The term 'young' in cancer circles usually refers to people with cancer under the age of 50-60. For me, I prefer the term 'reall...

Take the stage

Staging cancers can be a confusing science. You need to know three things: how much the tumour has grown (T), how many lymph nodes are inv...

August 12, 2011

Google a body

I studied some human anatomy and a bunch of non-human animal anatomy as part of my science degree. But that didn't help me when the surg...

August 6, 2011

Packing heat

I left hospital a changed person. I lost 12 kg and gained an appreciation of high-fat, high-protein and high-everything food. I lost a tu...

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