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Around 35,000 Britons are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year and up to 10 per cent end up with a colostomy bag after the tumour is removed. Mark Davies, 36, a marketing company director, who lives in Stockport, underwent a new procedure. He tells CAROL DAVIS about his experience, and his surgeon explains the procedure. The patient Five years ago, I was working long hours and living on junk food. Although I was often tired and had occasional mild stomach cramps, I just put it down to my busy lifestyle. But one weekend, after eating some spicy food, I got terrible diarrhoea. I still felt slightly unsettled on the Monday, so I went to see my GP, explaining that a couple of months before I'd started going to the loo more often - several times a day - and sometimes had traces of blood. She referred me to a specialist, who I saw... [read full story]
