
‘My world stopped’: Anal cancer survivor Dr Mary Birdsall on stigma and support
The “fittest 59-year-old [she] knew,” clocking up 60–70 hours a week working as a gynaecologist and running Fertility Associates - life was “full on” for Birdsall.
So when she noticed the bleeding when she would use the bathroom, she initially put it down to haemorrhoids.

Circulating tumour DNA in Advanced Anal Cancer
Scientists have found that they can detect tumour DNA in the blood stream of people