Adele Roberts has shared her experience of being diagnosed with bowel cancer a year ago this week and how important raising awareness continues to be.
The Radio 1 DJ, 43, was diagnosed with stage two bowel cancer last October and has continued to share a no-holds-barred look at the reality of treatment and life with a stoma, which she and her partner Kate Holderness have nicknamed ‘Audrey’.
Adele revealed to Metro.co.uk that she was inspired to be open about her experiences after the awareness raised by Dame Deborah James helped her spot the first subtle signs of bowel cancer and be treated early.
She explained: ‘I think people like Dame Deborah James speaking out is brilliant thing. Bowel cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the UK, which I didn’t realise until I got it.
‘When I first started experiencing my symptoms, I just thought it was a bit of a dodgy tummy. Kate said it was because I wasn’t cooking my kale properly. She was like “it’s you, you’re bad at cooking!”