Colorectal cancer: ‘When I heard the diagnosis, I walked the beach for two days – I knew I needed space to get my head straight’
When businessman Shane Pemberton was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2020, he was determined to stay positive and appreciate the small things in life, and he feels this contributed to his healing
Shane Pemberton speaks about his colorectal cancer diagnosis
When Shane Pemberton, from Stepaside in Dublin, started to notice a change in his bowel movements in April 2020, he knew something was wrong. “I felt I needed to go to the bathroom, but I couldn’t actually go, and when I did go there was a small amount of blood there,” says Pemberton.
This was, however, his only symptom. A healthy 44-year-old businessman, who runs a fuel control installation company, with his wife Caroline, and is father to two daughters, Kate, now 17, and Anna now 14, it had been years since he’d needed to visit a GP.
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