Deborah James

Presenter of BBC podcast You, Me And The Big C tells followers she has 'no regrets' as fundraising page passes £800000.

My whole family are around me and we will dance through this together, sunbathing and laughing (I’ll cry!!) at every possible moment! To give more Deborahs more time!” “My active care has stopped and I am now moved to hospice at home care, with my incredible family all around me and the focus is on making sure I’m not in pain and spending time with them.

Money donated to the campaign started by the 40-year-old will go towards funding clinical trials and research that could result in new treatments for cancer ...

"The small glimmers of options and far-flung chances that I've always believed in. Money donated to the campaign started by the 40-year-old will go towards funding clinical trials and research that could result in new treatments for cancer patients. "I have never known tiredness like it and yet I fight daily to stay awake enough to complete a To-do list of things that I want to check off before I die. "I fight daily to stay awake enough to complete a To-do list of things that I want to check off before I die" While admitting the previous six months had been "heartbreaking" to go through, the presenter of the BBC podcast You, Me And The Big C said she had been surrounded by "so much love" and had "no regrets". She was diagnosed with the condition in 2016 and said in a post on Monday night she "did not know how long I've got left".

Speaking in an interview, the 40-year-old star of acclaimed podcast 'You, Me and the Big C', thanked everyone for their generosity in donating to her cancer ...

I have anxiety, but this is a different level altogether in terms of trauma and I think I know it will get easier, and I know that I got support in place to help me with that. I have always over the years raised as much awareness and money for the charities that are closest to me. I don't really have a choice with that but I'm lucky to be able to do it as an out-patient rather than an in-patient.' To realise in a sudden split moment that you are unlikely to see the next day is utterly heartbreaking. She explained having a 'quick replacement operation' had turned into a 'nightmare', adding: 'I'm now at the mercy of hopefully some super 'magic medicine miracle' - but then I always have been, and any chance is a chance right? (All the memories came flooding back!) - but this year however I had to get some help going round the trail and borrowed a wheelchair. The surgery was a success and the cancer became inactive. To realise in a sudden split moment that you are unlikely to see the next day is utterly heartbreaking. I have always over the years raised as much awareness and money for the charities that are closest to me. Speaking to the BBC on Tuesday, Ms James - who has incurable bowel cancer - said that setting up a fund towards cancer treatments had been something she had always wanted to do. Speaking in an interview, she said learning about the huge number of donations to 'Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK' made her feel 'utterly loved' and like everyone is 'in at the end together' to make a difference. We know that we have the skills and the passion in the UK to do so.

BBC podcast host Deborah James has raised more than £1 .9 million after she revealed she is now receiving palliative care for stage four bowel cancer.

Deborah has lived with stage-four bowel cancer since a diagnosis in late 2016. To give more Deborah’s more time!”. In a final episode for the BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C, the mother-of-two said that even after enduring incurable cancer for five years, knowing she was near the end is “shocking”.

The 'You, Me and the Big C' podcast host - who has terminal bowel cancer after being diagnosed in 2016 - was overwhelmed when her £250,000 fundraising goal for ...