Saved From Death by Swallowing a Digital Camera ; Me and My Operation
Summary
BOWEL cancer kills 16,000 people in the UK each year. A new diagnostic procedure means surgeons can now use tiny cameras hidden in pills to check out the tumours, improving patients' chances. Here, Michael Presdee, 62, a criminologist who lives in Canterbury, Kent, with his wife Gillian, 51, and daughter Hannah, 12, describes the experience to THEA JOURDAN, and his specialist explains the procedure.
THE PATIENT MY SYMPTOMS started ten years ago, but no one knew what was wrong.See the full content of this document
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Saved From Death by Swallowing a Digital Camera ; Me and My Operation
Every now and then I lost a lot of blood from my bowel. It would suddenly start and wouldn't stop.
The first time it happened I thought I was going to die. On at least six occasions, I lost pints of blood and my wife had to drive me to hospital for a blood transfusion.Over the years, I had lots of tests includingbarium meal...See the full content of this document