Grandad George wins cancer battle thanks to screening kit

OAP has praised hospital for saving his life

- Gary Porter

A GRANDAD-of-four has praised the lifesaving teams at the Royal Stoke who helped him survive an aggressive form of bowel cancer.

George Bradbury, 69, was diagnosed thanks to a routine screening kit before undergoing robotic surgery to remove two thirds of his bowel in April 2022.

The car body shop owner from Meir Park says he owes his life to the hospital trust's bowel cancer screening programme. George said: "I had been noticing blood in the toilet for around five days when purely by coincidence my routine bowel cancer screening arrived in the post.

"Three days after returning a sample I had a letter from University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust's (UHNM) bowel cancer screening team inviting me to the Royal Stoke for a colonoscopy. The colonoscopy found four polyps at the end of the bowel which were removed and sent off for a biopsy. The results confirmed the largest of these was an aggressive form of cancer.