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Big Races / False Alarms
tl:dr don’t get CT scans or bloods analysed the week following a big race!! Two new posts are coming up before 2023 is over. This one is...
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Anson
- Mar 27
- 1 min
Running on Joy
It's not often I get to talk about running for over an hour to a captive audience (😃), and I'm so grateful to Francesca Goodwin from...
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Anson
- Feb 24
- 1 min
(Not a) bright spot on the horizon… ☹️
On Tuesday I saw the consultant oncologist for the first time in ages to get the results back from my latest scans. In fact she was the...
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Anson
- Jan 31
- 11 min
Arc of Attrition
While immunotherapy continues to do its stuff, keeping my stage 4 cancer in check, my interest in challenging ultras deepens. My original...
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Anson
- Jan 3
- 4 min
Hello 2023, you’re an unexpected but welcome delight...
I started and stopped this blog post oh so many times. Part of me wanted to do an update on what’s been happening with my treatment, and...
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Anson
- Jul 27, 2022
- 4 min
Going viral...
Living with long-term cancer has led to me having numerous interactions with the Oracle Cancer Trust, the UK's leading national charity...
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Anson
- Jun 28, 2022
- 3 min
Running as if my life depended upon it
As far as cancer treatment goes, it’s been an uneventful 3 months since my last post. I’m tolerating immunotherapy well, although a...
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Anson
- Apr 1, 2022
- 4 min
Not an April Fool - I’m now a pensioner 😬
One certainty about having Stage 4 cancer is that life is way more unpredictable. The rollercoaster analogy of riding the highs and lows...
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Anson
- Dec 31, 2021
- 3 min
It’s been a queer old year…
2021 has been a year of revelations. I’ve discovered in myself that I can run far and long, reaching milestones that I could never have...
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Anson
- Nov 19, 2021
- 4 min
Immunotherapy – the revolution in cancer treatment
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/immunotherapy/checkpoint-inhibitors Faced with long-term illness, one learns to...
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Anson
- Oct 28, 2021
- 4 min
Stage 4
It’s really interesting to read in my blog post from August 9th 2020 celebrating my ‘all-clear’ where I write: “The chances of staying in...
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Anson
- Sep 21, 2021
- 6 min
Here we go again… 🙁
I think it’s fair to say that I’ve lived my life these past 18 months on the basis that however bad my cancer and treatment had been,...
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Anson
- Feb 12, 2021
- 3 min
Image having 35 million dental x-rays...
Not all surprises on your birthday turn out to be nice, and last year’s confirmation of having Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) on February...
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Anson
- Oct 31, 2020
- 2 min
Week 33: 6-months since treatment ended
As one gets *cough* older, anniversaries become more mute. Or maybe that’s just me. I genuinely forget, every year, how long David and I...
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Anson
- Sep 14, 2020
- 4 min
Week 26: Survivor's Guilt
Flicking through some Instagram stories last week, one stopped me dead in my tracks. I found out that the health services had failed to...
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Anson
- Aug 30, 2020
- 2 min
Week 24: I’m running the 40th London Marathon!
Science & technology, care & expertise have ensured that the Head and Neck Cancer that had been growing and spreading in my body has been...
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Anson
- Aug 9, 2020
- 2 min
Week 21 The “All-Clear”
I got a phone call from my oncologist on Friday to tell me the good news that the MRI scan showed that there is no evidence of disease...
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Anson
- Aug 3, 2020
- 4 min
Week 20: What’s it like, 3 months into recovery…
My radiation treatment for head and neck cancer, caused by the HPV16 virus, ended on 1st May 2020, so three months later, there’s no...
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Anson
- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
Week 16: Back to Life, Back to Reality
Well, what a roller-coaster 4 months it’s been. 2020 proved that not only can life swerve in a different direction for people personally...
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Anson
- Jun 21, 2020
- 1 min
Week 15: the opioid withdrawal...
As the pain from the radiation therapy has been lessening, I've also been reducing my intake of liquid Oxycodone. At the height of my...
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