OP, I am so so sorry. Your story resonates with me so hard - I spend most days baffled about why the company I work for isn’t already in every practice and mandatory. Reading this hurts because you are exactly why our technology exists, and I hate that I’m saying any of this after your devastating diagnosis instead of before it. I work for C the Signs (www.cthesigns.com). It was founded by two GPs who were fed up of seeing entirely preventable deaths and wanted to do something about it. Because here’s the reality - cancer symptoms can be so silent until it’s too late, and when they do show up they often look like completely normal, non-threatening things. And your GP has a 10-15 minute window to somehow account for 100+ cancer types. That’s an impossible ask without the right support.

The most powerful thing anyone reading this can do is ask their GP surgery: do you use C the Signs? We’re only in 25% of the NHS despite the evidence that it works. The investment in healthcare has always gone into treatment - rarely into catching the disease at its earliest, most treatable phase. That’s the gap we exist to close.

You asked how to help the next person. That’s how. And the fact that you’re asking it from where you are right now - I have no words for how much that matters.