The husband of a healthy young Irish mother-of-two who died from an aggressive form of bowel cancer in Australia has started a campaign to reduce the age for cancer screening to prevent other families experiencing the same grief.
“Saving lives is of course the number one goal but on the other side, I only got four weeks. If I can give someone six months, two years, three years, if I can give someone more time than I had, that'll be a success as well. At first doctors were unsure what was causing her pain, but days later Susan was rushed into emergency surgery to remove a tumour from her bowel and they later received the shocking news that Susan had bowel cancer and that it was terminal.
“When they said she was going to die, I walked outside and I asked [the oncologist], ‘How long do I have?’ and she said, ‘It’s too hard to say we don’t know’.” “I had to tell her she was dying, which was pretty hard,” said John Paul. “Susan was so positive. She would put positivity posts on her Instagram and she had affirmation cards with positivity.
“[There is a] fantastic Irish community here [in Perth],” said John Paul. “The pals I’ve made over here have just been second to none. He wants to change the current bowel cancer screening criteria to include people aged 30 and over, and wishes to have women, during and after pregnancy, included in screening.
Whilst it is most common for those in older age groups, it is one of the fastest rising cancers in young people. “For some reason bowel cancer is under the radar and no one really talks about it. No one really understands it,” he said.
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