Deborah was feeling "under the weather" for about a year, before she was diagnosed with stage three bowel cancer.

The mother-of-two says the possibility she might not see her children grow up is "mortifying".

"I think I am learning to accept the fact that I have limited control over my cancer," Deborah, 35, says.

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