'I Felt Healthy but Screening Picked Up Cancer'

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Summary

When David Phillips first received a small brown package from a Midland hospital, containing a bowel cancer test kit, he was reluctant to use it.

But at the insistence of his wife, Joan, the retired swimming coach duly took a sample using the kit, which came back positive.

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'I Felt Healthy but Screening Picked Up Cancer'

The 67-year-old, who lives in Coventry, had previously seen his GP about blood in his stools in the 1970s...