BBC podcast presenter Deborah James who has incurable 癌 celebrates her 40th with a wild birthday party with Sophie Ellis-Bextor 成し遂げるing - after 恐れるing it was a milestone she would never see

  • You, Me and the Big C 星／主役にする Deborah James, from London, turned 40 on October 1
  • Mother-of-two had said she ーするつもりであるd to 'bang on' about her milestone birthday
  • Deborah was 診断するd with 行う／開催する／段階 four bowel 癌 in December 2016 and told her 信奉者s she was '粉砕するing' every statistic to live this long
  • Earlier this year, she 苦しむd from 肝臓 失敗 and sepsis and is 支援する on chemotherapy to try and stop the 急速な／放蕩な 加速するing 癌?

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BBC?podcast presenter Deborah James, who has 行う／開催する／段階 four bowel 癌, has 株d snaps from her wild 40th birthday party after 恐れるing it was a milestone she would never see.?

The former 副 長，率いる turner 癌 選挙運動者 from London, a mother-of-two, has been living with 行う／開催する／段階 four bowel 癌 since she was 診断するd in December 2016, and was told 早期に on that she might not live beyond five years.

However last night, she 株d snaps and clips as she threw an enormous house party at her home, 完全にする with a 業績／成果 from popstar Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

地位，任命するing on Instagram, she wrote she had 最初 planned a 'low 重要な' dinner and dance party for her closest friends and family last week, 追加するing: 'I’m still blown away by reaching 40, but I really wasn’t sure if I’d 対処する with anything too crazy.?

BBC podcast presenter Deborah James, who has stage four bowel cancer, has shared sn aps from her wild 40th birthday party after fearing it was a milestone she would never see (pictured left, with popstar Sophie Ellis-Bextor who performed at the event)

BBC podcast presenter Deborah James, who has 行う／開催する／段階 four bowel 癌, has 株d snaps from her wild 40th birthday party after 恐れるing it was a milestone she would never see (pictured left, with popstar Sophie Ellis-Bextor who 成し遂げるd at the event)?

Deborah said she had initially planned a 'low key' dinner and dance party for her closest friends and family last week (pictured)

Deborah said she had 最初 planned a 'low 重要な' dinner and dance party for her closest friends and family last week (pictured)?

'But then I didn’t want to 悔いる doing nothing! So at the very last minute I pulled a party out of the 捕らえる、獲得する, and then Sophie Ellis-Bextor put the cherry on the cake by staying true to her word (when we 記録，記録的な／記録するd her spinning plates podcast a few months 支援する), and turned up to sing! From her kitchen disco to 地雷!

'Blown away by 親切 and love. My 目的（とする） was to last until midnight and not to vomit or cry! (達成するd!).'

She continued: 'I was still dancing at 3am, (I can’t 解任する when I last did that!), and it’s fair to say I 港／避難所’t got dressed all day today!?

'I will now be taking it 平易な! But I’ve 結論するd I’m not really sure “low 重要な” features in my vocabulary!! 全く 価値（がある） it!'

The You, Me and the Big C star, who has been living with bowel cancer since she was diagnosed in December 2016 and has suffered a difficult few months after an aggressive new tumour near her liver had wrapped itself around her bile duct - leaving her requiring life-saving hospital treatment

The You, Me and the Big C 星／主役にする, who has been living with bowel 癌 since she was 診断するd in December 2016 and has 苦しむd a difficult few months after an 積極的な new tumour 近づく her 肝臓 had wrapped itself around her 胆汁 導管 - leaving her 要求するing life-saving hospital 治療

Snaps 株d on Deborah's social マスコミ showed her house decorated with a 抱擁する array of balloons, with her friends and family sitting 負かす／撃墜する for a candle-lit dinner before the party.?

Later she 株d clips as she 成し遂げるd a speech which she said she had 'written in the bathroom on her phone' before the event.?

It wasn't the first birthday 祝賀 Deborah has thrown in 最近の days.?

Last month, a glamorous-looking James 株d a photo on Instagram of herself enjoying a night out at a swish London hotel.

Snaps shared on Deborah's social media showed her house decorated with a huge array of balloons, with her friends and family sitting down for a candl e-lit dinner before the party
Snaps shared on Deborah's social media showed her house decorated with a huge array of balloons, with her friends and family sitting down for a candle-lit dinner before the party

Snaps 株d on Deborah's social マスコミ showed her house decorated with a 抱擁する array of balloons, with her friends and family sitting 負かす／撃墜する for a candle-lit dinner before the party?

After a difficult summer, in which she was told she had an 積極的な new tumour 近づく her 肝臓 that had wrapped itself around her 胆汁 導管 - 要求するing a life-saving stay in hospital, James said just 審理，公聴会 the words Happy Birthday 'made me smile'.

She told her 222,000 Instagram 信奉者s: 'It's not やめる my birthday! But last night I got my first "Happy Birthday" and my word it made me smile!?

'I 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる it's weird to bang on about a birthday, but it’s a milestone one (40) I was told I wouldn’t see.'?

James followed up with: 'So 許す the next week of “omg, I might 現実に see my 40th” over excitement on the 地位，任命するing 前線!'?

Last month, James 勧めるd people to see a doctor if they felt something wasn't 権利 に引き続いて the death from breast 癌 of Girls Aloud 星／主役にする Sarah Harding.?

Meanwhile popstar Sophie later performed at the birthday event for Deborah in a room decorated with huge gold and white balloons
Meanwhile popstar Sophie later performed at the birthday event for Deborah in a room decorated with huge gold and white balloons

一方／合間 popstar Sophie later 成し遂げるd at the birthday event for Deborah in a room decorated with 抱擁する gold and white balloons?

The podcast host later shared a clip as she danced with her husband late into the evening (pictured)

The podcast host later 株d a clip as she danced with her husband late into the evening (pictured)?

She said: ' It's not putting the 非難する 支援する, I've 本人自身で beaten myself up about regretting not getting to the GP earlier.'

Sarah passed away on September 5th, just 13 months after 確認するing her 終点 癌 diagnosis. Her death was 発表するd by her 荒廃させるd family on social マスコミ.

Speaking about Sarah's death, James said it was 'hard-hitting', 追加するing: 'It's not just breast 癌, it's knowing our 団体／死体 and understanding the difference between 早期に and late diagnosis.

'It's 悲劇の it takes these 肉親，親類d of headlines to remind us that 非，不，無 of us are 免除された from the one in two of us who will get 癌 in our lifetime.

The social media star has documented her battle with cancer online since being diagnosed and campaigned for better awareness around bowel cancer diagnosis

The social マスコミ 星／主役にする has 文書d her 戦う／戦い with 癌 online since 存在 診断するd and （選挙などの）運動をするd for better 認識／意識性 around bowel 癌 diagnos is

'It's not about scaremongering. It's about if you're sat at home 権利 now, you need to know your 団体／死体 and get it checked out sooner rather than later.'?

She said she could relate to Sarah's 恐れるs about 存在 診断するd, 説: 'I live with incurable bowel 癌 and I put off my own diagnosis with bowel 癌.

'You assume at that age you're too young to be 診断するd. By the time I was, I had late 行う／開催する／段階 bowel 癌.'

She explained: 'I'm very 感謝する to be approaching five years, but I know that I'm 粉砕するing every statistic to do that.

'The 重要な message is 現実に 癌 is survivable. More people will 努力する／競う 10 years after they are 診断するd with 癌 then die from it, but that's because of where we're moving ーに関して／ーの点でs of catching things 早期に.

'The first step in doing that is for people sat at home is to recognise it has to start with them and we have to come 今後.

She praised her husband, Sebastien Bowen, for 'keeping the family together', posting a picture of the couple at Queen's tennis tournament in West London in early summer

She 賞賛するd her husband, Sebastien Bowen, for 'keeping the family together', 地位，任命するing a picture of the couple at Queen's tennis tournament in West London in 早期に summer

'It's not putting the 非難する 支援する, I've 本人自身で beaten myself up about regretting not getting to the GP earlier.

'But I think if you're one of those people who is a little bit 関心d, it's knowing, it's scarily the longer we leave it rather than getting it sorted straight away.'?

Deborah has been 文書ing her 戦う／戦い with 癌 online since diagnosis, 含むing 明らかにする／漏らすing how her mother, known as @bowelgran on Instagram, had been helping her 対処する while her family were away on holiday this summer.

地位，任命するing on Twitter, she wrote: '[Mum] has literally been nursing me 支援する to life for the last month through 肝臓 失敗 and sepsis.?#stayingalive.'?

地位，任命するing the clip, she said: 'Chemo dancing whilst 麻薬中毒の up to life saving 麻薬s is on! This cycle, kids are away, so mum has stepped up!'?

成し遂げるing a 簡潔な／要約する chereographed 決まりきった仕事 to Staying Alive, she 追加するd: 'Song couldn’t be more apt! 癌 is still happening!'?

Deborah, who was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016, told her foll owers earlier this year that scan results had shown: 'Things have moved (in the wrong direction) very quickly'

Deborah, who was 診断するd with bowel 癌 in 2016, told her 信奉者s earlier this year that ざっと目を通す results had shown: 'Things have moved (in the wrong direction) very quickly'

In August, the 癌 選挙運動者 had a 肝臓 stunt fitted to 許す her to have その上の chemotherapy.? ???

She 株d a photo of herself with husband Sebastien at the Queen's tennis tournament in West London, 説: 'I think you all know, by my general 欠如（する） of 存在 on here (dancing!), that things have moved (in the wrong direction) very quickly 癌 wise.'?

Deborah 賞賛するd her 'superman' husband, Sebastien Bowen, for 'keeping the family together' during a 'crazy a** scary week'. She has two children with the French 銀行業者, Hugo and Eloise.?

The 上昇傾向 presenter 追加するd: 'I do have a 微光 of hope and 選択s and am greatful to my team w 売春婦 are 現在／一般に pulling a "next step" 計画（する） together that doesn’t 含むing 令状ing me off just yet!'?

明らかにする／漏らすing she'd 耐えるd many 実験（する）s and ざっと目を通すs in 最近の days, Deborah said she'd 'earnt a hell of a lot of brownie points for the 量 of time I’ve spent on scanners and having 実験（する）s this week'.?

She 追加するd that: 'Whilst it goes without 説 that I’ve felt at 激しく揺する 底（に届く）, I’m not giving up hope just yet.'

The mother-of-two finished the 地位，任命する by 説 she was 'taking the 週末 to snuggle up with my family so you won’t see me on here, and I 勧める you to do the same.'

Last year, Deborah began taking new 実験の 麻薬s as part of a 裁判，公判 after her oncology team gave her the green light to do so.?

In April, James 株d that her 癌, which has been kept at bay by 開拓するing 治療, was 支援する again and she was 軍隊d to 耐える a 12th 操作／手術.?

In the spring, James 開始する，打ち上げるd ITV's Lorraine's 'No Butts' （選挙などの）運動をする, designed to get people talking about the illness's main symptoms, 明らかにする／漏らすd how she recently asked her oncologist whether this was the 'beginning of the end' に引き続いて her most 最近の results.

She has frequently said that as a vegetarian 走者, she was the last person doctors 推定する／予想するd to get the 病気.??

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In 2018, Deborah (left) joined Lauren Mahon (front) and Rachael Bland (right) to present the award-winning podcast You, Me and the Big C on Radio 5 Live. Bland tragically died of breast cancer on September 5th that year; her husband Steve Bland now co-presents the show

In 2018, Deborah (left) joined Lauren Mahon (前線) and Rachael Bland (権利) to 現在の the award-winning podcast You, Me and the Big C on 無線で通信する 5 Live. Bland tragically died of breast 癌 on September 5th that year; her husband Steve Bland now co-現在のs the show

  • In December 2016, the West London mother-of-two, a 副 長，率いる, was 診断するd 'late' with incurable bowel 癌
  • After 株ing her experiences on living with the 病気 on social マスコミ, D eborah became known as the 'Bowel Babe'?
  • In 2018, she became one of three presenters on 無線で通信する 5 Live's You, Me and the Big C, which was conceived by her late co-host Rachael Bland?
  • On September 5th 2018, Welsh 新聞記者／雑誌記者 and presenter Bland, 診断するd with 終点 breast 癌, died at the age of 40
  • Deborah and her co-host Lauren Mahon continue to 現在の the show, with Steve Bland, Rachael's husband, joining the 二人組
  • On social マスコミ and in her column for the Sun newspaper, Deborah has 文書d the many chemo, 放射線療法 開会／開廷／会期s and 外科 she's had since
Last week, Deborah told followers on Instagram 'By my general lack of being on here (dancing!), that Things have moved (in the wrong direction) very quickly cancer wise.' Pictured: Deborah James undergoing a scan at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London

Last week, Deborah told 信奉者s on Instagram 'By my general 欠如（する） of 存在 on here (dancing!), that Things have moved (in the wrong direction) very quickly 癌 wise.' Pictured: Deborah James を受けるing a ざっと目を通す at the 王室の Marsden Hospital in London

  • In 2019, she had a 手続き known as CyberKnife, a 高度に 的d form of 放射線療法 to attack an inoperable lymph node の近くに to her 肝臓
  • ?The pandemic's 衝撃 on 癌 services saw her （選挙などの）運動をする for care to continue as normal and, earlier this year, she 開始する，打ち上げるd the ITV's Lorraine's 'No Butts' （選挙などの）運動をする, raising 認識／意識性 on bowel 癌 symptoms?
  • Since last year, she has been taking new 実験の 麻薬s as part of a 裁判，公判 after her oncology team gave her the green light to do so
  • August, Deborah 明らかにする／漏らすd that ざっと目を通すs she's had in 最近の days have 明らかにする／漏らすd her 癌 has gone in the 'wrong direction very quickly'??
  • She told 信奉者s she would be taking a break on social マスコミ over the 週末 to 'snuggle' with her family ahead of more ざっと目を通すs
  • The mother-of-two said a new '速く-growing' tumour 近づく her 肝臓 had wrapped itself around her bowel
  • Deborah must now start chemotherapy again after her 癌 stopped 答える／応じるing to the 麻薬s she's 現在／一般に on
  • On October 1, Deborah celebrates her 40th birthday??

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The 外科 was a success and her 癌 became inactive. But while Deborah continued を受けるing daily 的d 麻薬 therapy to keep the 癌 at bay, she told how just as lockdown 制限s in the UK started 緩和, her 癌 '手配中の，お尋ね者 in on the party' and started waking up.?

Deborah, who says that as a 行う／開催する／段階 4 癌 患者 all she wants is 'hope and 選択s,' 追加するd that the node is inoperable and that her 団体／死体 is unable to 対処する with any more 放射線療法 in that area.

However, with an oncologist 確認するing Deborah's 癌 is spreading to '限られた／立憲的な 場所／位置s' in a '明確な／細部 way,' 地元の therapies - 含むing a mix of CyberKnife and ablation - have so far had 肯定的な 結果s.?

Deborah has also undergone a new type of?ablation known as NanoKnife -? an?ablation 手続き?that uses low energy 電気の pulses to create defects in 独房 membranes, resulting in loss of homeostasis and その後の 独房 death.???

BOWEL CANCER: THE SYMPTOMS YOU SHOULDN'T IGNORE?

Bowel, or colorectal, 癌 影響する／感情s the large bowel, which is made up of the 結腸 and rectum.

Such tumours usually develop from pre-cancerous growths, called polyps.

Symptoms 含む:

  • Bleeding from the 底（に届く）
  • 血 in stools
  • A change in bowel habits 継続している at least three weeks
  • Unexplained 負わせる loss
  • Extreme, unexplained tiredness
  • 復部の 苦痛

Most 事例／患者s have no （疑いを）晴らす 原因（となる）, however, people are more at 危険 if they:?

  • Are over 50
  • Have a family history of the 条件
  • Have a personal history of polyps in their bowel
  • を煩う inflammatory bowel 病気, such as Crohn's 病気
  • Lead an unhealthy lifestyle??

治療 usually 伴う／関わるs 外科, and chemo- and 放射線療法.

More than nine out of 10 people with 行う／開催する／段階 one bowel 癌 生き残る five years or more after their diagnosis.

This 減少（する）s 意味ありげに if it is 診断するd in later 行う／開催する／段階s.?

によれば Bowel 癌 UK 人物／姿／数字s, more than 41,200 people are 診断するd with bowel 癌 every year in the UK.?

It 影響する／感情s around 40 per 100,000 adults per year in the US, によれば the 国家の 癌 学校／設ける.

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