Tag: Patient voices
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Niamh Conroy’s Legacy: Tributes to a Bowel Cancer Campaigner Who Dared to Push Screening Earlier
Remembering Niamh Conroy and a Life Shaped by Courage The country is paying tribute to Niamh Conroy, a tireless campaigner whose fight against bowel cancer extended far beyond her own diagnosis. Her advocacy focused on one urgent message: the screening age for bowel cancer needed to be lowered so younger people could detect the disease…
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Post-Covid: New sport mates and lingering symptoms today
Post-Covid and the new everyday heroes Three years into the pandemic, my heart and vascular health are no longer the only limits. A coronary angiogram showed my arterioles letting through less blood than normal, and peripheral resistance in the heart’s vascular tree was high. I’ve had to reinvent my life around what my body can…