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Anson
Oct 14, 20242 min read
David as caregiver
David and I have taken part in an ongoing campaign by Merck Healthcare (“ embracing carers ”) to highlight the role that caregivers play...
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Anson
Sep 20, 20242 min read
Good week for scan results
Like waiting for buses, they all seem to come at once. This week I got results back from (i) CT scans looks for evidence of cancer in...
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Anson
Jan 25, 202412 min read
Cancer and the 'Challenger Celebration'
It's 07:30 am, and over a 100 people are congregating in a field in sub-zero conditions in the small Yorkshire village of Hardraw. We are...
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Anson
Dec 15, 20233 min read
On the right side of the curve…
It’s been just over two years since I started immunotherapy treatment for Stage 4 head and neck cancer, and what a roller-coaster two...
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Anson
Nov 8, 20234 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20231 min read
(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, 202311 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20214 min read
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
Sep 21, 20216 min read
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, 20213 min read
Imagine 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, 20202 min read
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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