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Bridget Bennie will never forget her daughter’s first birthday. A day reserved for celebrating an important milestone was turned on its head when she was told that she had stage three bowel cancer. The 34-year-old mother-of-two from Brisbane says the cancer diagnosis came as a shock despite the fact she’d been experiencing problems with her bowel.

“It was heart-breaking news. My world was rocked,” says Bridget. “The blood in my stool started after my daughter was born. I remember having a conversation with a friend when I came back from the toilet for the third time during our lunch. I said, ‘The bleeding only starts after my fifth

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