Deborah James Symptoms: What symptoms did Deborah James have?

Deborah is a London-based journalist, podcast broadcaster, and charity campaigner.
Before joining the media, she worked as a deputy headteacher at Salesian School in Chertsey, where she specialised in computer science and e-learning.

Deborah was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer in 2016 and has spent the past six years raising awareness and funding. She was 35 years old when she was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer, which progressed to stage 4.

Deborah explained what led to her diagnosis and what symptoms she had in an article for Bowel Cancer UK.

According to Deborah. she saw doctors a couple of times over six months and was told multiple times that she must have IBS, haemorrhoids, or worse, colitis, her blood tests and stool sample came back ‘normal.’”

“Despite this, I was still losing weight, passing blood, going to the bathroom at least 100 times a day,  I had a sixth sense that something was wrong with me because, for the first time, I was terrified” Her 5.5cm tumour was discovered after she scheduled a private colonoscopy, but it was too late.