UK Example - Dave Miners

In the UK, one patient, Dave Miners, from Stroud in Gloucestershire, did as much as anyone to help transform the media's interest in colorectal cancer. Despite being relatively young, in his early 50's, and fit and healthy - he played golf and skied regularly and had recently run a marathon - he was diagnosed with an advanced form of the disease in 2003.

Once he had recovered from the shock of finding out that he had colorectal cancer, he became determined to find out more about it and contacted the nurse-run Infoline at the patient organisation Bowel Cancer UK (previously Colon Cancer Concern) establishing a relationship with the organisation that continued until his death.