This Morning doctor coming to terms with life-changing diagnosis

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direct to your inboxDr Philippa Kaye was 39-years-old when she heard those dreaded words.The diagnosis of bowel cancer would change her life and mean crossing the divide from being a doctor to being a patient.Yet even with years of medical training, nothing could have prepared her for the reality of the diagnosis.While bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK and the second biggest killer, at Philippa’s age, she had just a one in a ten-thousand chance.Lying in the hospital bed, she found out what was wrong with her at the same time as the surgeon who had just carried out the colonoscopy.“I looked at the cancer on screen and I knew what it was,” said Dr Kaye, who is a resident doctor on ITV’s This Morning.“I turned and looked.