WARNING AFTER WIFE EMMA DIED OF BOWEL CANCER AT 39

A GRIEVING Plymouth man whose wife died from bowel cancer is urging people to get themselves checked for the disease.

- KATIE OBORN

Emma Cameron was diagnosed with bowel cancer in July 2023 and died aged just 39. She had been feeling tired, but she and her husband, Luke Cameron, put it down to a “busy lifestyle and being parents”.

Emma, who worked as a nurse, had been constipated for a month, but due to her age bowel cancer was not initially considered. The couple went to A&E twice and on the second visit they found that Emma’s liver was “in distress”, a blockage was suspected and she was sent for a CT scan.

Luke said: “We got told at that point that the cancer was everywhere. It was in her lungs, liver, in her perineum.

“They found the blockage in her bowel and they fitted an urgent stent to unblock her. But they already knew it was stage 4 cancer, that’s when it has spread from the primary area (the bowel) to other body organs.