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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May 6, 2017

Cartoon journey

To accompany the S cience Friction episode about the kinds of things people weigh up when making medical treatment decisions, Humyara Mahbu...

July 31, 2016

Guilt of all kinds

As I've written in my post Three Years , one of the hardest aspects of surviving cancer, for me, is leaving behind the people that don...

July 7, 2016

Five years: The waiting room

Waiting rooms in cancer hospitals are strange places. We patients sit side-by-side during these deeply private moments, stripped to our unde...

September 5, 2015

Coffee and cancer, a translation

Image: Izabela Latak During cancer treatment I started drinking coffee, through my mouth. That’s an important distinction in the cancer...

May 7, 2015

Fear and alternative medicine

Soon after my cancer diagnosis I told my surgeon that I was uncomfortable about the upcoming surgery and did not want him to remove all my c...

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