Veteran journalist Jeremy Bowen diagnosed with bowel cancer
Doctors initially believed the veteran journalist's pain was due to scarring from a previous surgery, he told BBC Breakfast.
"I had no symptoms - none of the classic bowel cancer symptoms. Nothing at all. But I thought I should get a test", he said. He said he received a positive result and had a colonoscopy - a camera inserted into the colon that looks for signs of cancer.Surgeons found a tumour, which they removed, and he was currently having chemotherapy.
Bowen, born in Cardiff, and a BBC journalist for 35 years, said his diagnosis"could have been earlier, but had it been later it would have been much more serious", he said."Things to do with your bowels and poo ... are not things people normally want to talk about. But actually it's part of all our lives and you need to work on it.
"You've got to keep positive about things in life - it's all part of the journey, as they say on Strictly [Come Dancing]," he added.
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