This Morning’s resident doctor, NHS GP Philippa Kaye, was just 39 when she heard the dreaded words ‘it’s cancer’, instantly crossing the divide from expert to patient.
She soon realised her years of medical training could never have prepared her for the realities of living with cancer – or undergoing treatment during the pandemic.
Here she tells her story in her own words... Lockdown, in all its various inceptions over the past 12 months, has been incredibly isolating for everyone.
But for some, like me, cancer is adding to the list of burdens that come with a global pandemic. At 39, in May 2019, I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and had major surgery followed by chemotherapy.
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