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Dean Barker: 'The darkest place' - my bowel cancer journey is not over

Greg Bruce
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The America’s Cup veteran tells Greg Bruce he’s on a mission to save lives, including his own.

Dean Barker had found some blood in his poo but thought it was probably nothing. When it was still there after a few weeks, he went to see the doctor, who thought it was most likely haemorrhoids and prescribed him a cream for it. As good practice, and from an abundance of caution, he was also sent for a colonoscopy, a bowel

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