'I thought I just had haemorrhoids. The reality was something I could never have imagined'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA barrister who initially put his cancer symptoms down to haemorrhoids has revealed the first sign he knew something was wrong.
Sebastian Clegg was diagnosed with bowel cancer in April 2022 before learning it had spread to his lungs a year later. Sadly, the stage 4 condition is now inoperable.
The 55-year-old first started experiencing blood in his stool six months before his diagnosis but “didn’t think too much of it”. READ MORE: 'I was watching a film with my son, then in 20 minutes our lives changed forever' The dad-of-three, who lived in Didsbury but recently moved to Northwich, says alarm bells started to ring when the blood turned heavy, prompting him to visit his GP.
During his appointment, Sebastian pushed for a colonoscopy, a procedure in which a doctor uses a flexible tube with a camera on one end to look inside the rectum and colon.
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk