Lynn Faulds Wood sadly died at the age of 72 from a stroke today.
The former Watchdog presenter battled cancer twice before she died and used her experience to help others who were diagnosed with the disease.
She bravely got through a diagnosis of skin cancer and another of cancer in the bowel.
After Lynn was diagnosed with bowel cancer at the age of 41 she went on a mission to educate people about their "guts" as she felt the information she was fed was not good enough.
She became the founder of the charity Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign and produced a leaflet with information to advise people on how to look out for signs of bowel cancer and how to self test before visiting a GP.
In 2006 she revealed to Cancer World magazine how it took "nearly a year" for her bowel cancer to be confirmed, she told the publication: “It was a classic apple-core-shaped colon cancer.
"I was shattered. I’d apparently had it for years, and I didn’t know what my chances were. There was no Internet then. I remember going round the bookshops looking for information, but there was nothing on bowel cancer.”
She was offered surgical removal of the cancer at St Mark’s, London as she was fortunate enough to be able to afford for private healthcare subsequent tests revealed that there had not been any no spread to other organs, and five years later Lynn received was told she had won her battle.
In 2003 she told Chronicle Live : "I could easily have lost my life, it just makes me want to try harder for other people.
"But when I was diagnosed the symptoms advice was pretty hopeless, it was so generalised, that I didn't blame anyone for not recognising I had it.
"I've really helped to improve the symptoms advice and I've really helped to improve the way people get diagnosed because of my own experiences."
Lynn faced and overcame many health battles, as well as bowel cancer, she had skin cancer, and was misdiagnosed with osteo-arthritis.
Lynn's death was confirmed by her family.
"Having suffered a massive stroke last night and a subsequent bleed on the brain, presenter and journalist Lynn Faulds Wood passed away peacefully at 12 noon today with her husband John Stapleton and son Nick at her bedside," they wrote.
Lynn leaves behind husband John, son Nick, and daughter-in-law Lise.
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