Dame Debroah James has bid an emotional farewell to her brother Ben as he jets off on a holiday to the US.
Dame Deborah was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016 and has since kept her Instagram followers up to date with her treatments and day-to-day life to raise awareness about the signs of bowel cancer.
Dame Deborah has bid farewell to her brother Ben
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She is currently receiving end-of-life care at her parent’s home in Woking.
Speaking about her brother’s holiday, Dame Deborah said she told him: “They have to go”.
She said: "He’s off on holiday to the US tomorrow. I have told him they have to go, they’ve planned the trip for ages. I also told him he must not come back, under any circumstances.
"He says he’ll come home.
"It’ll be horrible saying goodbye to him. I can’t really think about it right now," she told The Sun.
It comes after she spoke out about the moment she had a "gut instinct that something wasn't right".
"I started going to poo – we need to say that – eight times a day. And I used to be a once-a-day kind of girl.
"Then I started getting really tired and I remember drinking loads of cups of coffee just to try and keep myself awake.
"Then I started losing loads of weight and I started having blood in my poo,” she told GP Dr Tosin Ajayi-Sotubo on GP E4’s Embarrassing Bodies.
The 40-year-old said it was that moment when she had a "gut instinct that something wasn't right".
Dame Deborah James
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