{"id":542602,"date":"2026-04-21T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542602\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:58:10","slug":"deal-mother-urges-public-to-do-the-poo-test-for-bowel-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542602\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal mother urges public to &#8216;do the poo test&#8217; for bowel cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Corby&#8217;s test, she had a procedure to remove small polyp growths and an operation was planned to remove a larger growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She agreed to participate in a training programme where her surgery would be streamed to surgeons around the world, but when doctors saw the growth they &#8220;all agreed&#8221; it looked like cancer and could not be removed that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surgeons at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate removed  the tumour and 12in (30cm) of Corby&#8217;s bowel at a separate time in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt so grateful because my cancer hadn&#8217;t spread and was caught early, so I didn&#8217;t need to have chemotherapy or any other treatment,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite having her temporary stoma removed early after it caused &#8220;muscular spasm pain and vomiting, including vomiting up bowel products&#8221; after being rejected by her body, Corby said the &#8220;positive outcome kept me going&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;All the way through the team have been fantastic: the surgeons, the stoma team, the nurses, and everyone else who has been supporting me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Corby&#8217;s test, she had a procedure to remove small polyp growths and an operation was planned to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-542602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}