Last year Adele Roberts broke the world record for the fastest London Marathon runner with a stoma. Now she has written a memoir about her journey with bowel cancer. Hannah Stephenson reports
Former Leeds DJ, Dancing On Ice star and marathon runner, Adele Roberts, calls her stoma ‘Audrey’, branding her a ‘cheeky monkey’ when she misbehaves. “Audrey is my little friend,” she says playfully of the stoma. “She always seems to play up and humbles me in public. But she’s been my little buddy all the way through it.
“In a way, bowel cancer is a silent killer because people don’t talk about it. There’s not enough awareness and the symptoms are easy to explain away . “I felt like I was in the shape of my life. I didn’t expect to be told I had cancer. I split into two that day – the old me stopped and the new me began. “When I first got diagnosed, it was obviously very overwhelming.
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