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‘I don’t have the luxury of saying it might come around again’

Deborah James is the host of the 91¸£ÀûÉç's You, Me And The Big C podcast and a campaigner, writer and mother of two. She was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer at 35-years old and blogs about her life as @bowelbabe on social media.

She was recently hospitalised with sepsis due to her compromised immune system, but still made an appearance at the Wimbledon final just twelve hours after being released. She joined Emma Barnett to discuss what bowel cancer has taught her about making every moment count and shared her best advice on how to get up and enjoy life, even in the darkest times.

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