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Dame Deborah James was ‘invincible’ until the minute she took ‘last breath’, says mother

James was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer in 2016 and campaigned tirelessly to raise awareness of the symptoms

The Independent UK

Deborah James shares gruelling toll cancer took on her marriage in poignant BBC documentary

Dame Deborah James was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in December 2016, when she was 35 years old, and after an inspiring fight, the podcast star sadly passed away in June 2022

Daily Mirror

Dame Deborah James warned husband Sebastien he ‘couldn’t hook up with’ certain women after she died

The cancer campaigner said her husband would be a ‘very eligible bachelor’ once she passed

The Independent UK

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Who are Deborah James' children and what does her husband do? The late cancer campaigner's family life

Find out about Deborah Jamess children and more details of her family life, as details of a documentary about her life are confirmed.

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Husband of Dame Deborah James recalls her death saying it was 'one of the best ways you could hope to die'

Sebastien Bowen spoke of her death for the first time publicly after it was revealed that his late wife's Bowelbabe Fund had raised more than £11 million

Manchester Evening News

Dame Deborah James ‘did everything she could hope to achieve’ before death, says husband

Dame Deborah died in June aged 40 after being diagnosed with bowel cancer

The Independent UK

Deborah James 'died in best possible way', husband says in first TV interview

Dame Deborah James' widower Sebastien Bowen has admitted it is difficult to articulate how hard he has found it since the passing of his wife last June

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Deborah James' husband says it's 'difficult to articulate' how hard it's been

Dame Deborah died aged 40 last year after battling bowel cancer for five years

Wales Online

Deborah James’ mum says she has been ‘numb’ with grief

Heather James told Lorraine’s Ranvir Singh how proud she is of her late daughter

Evening Standard

Deborah James’s mother: This is real, she’s not here anymore

The cancer campaigner and podcast host, who set up the Bowelbabe cancer research fund, died last year at the age of 40.

The Independent UK

Dame Deborah James raises incredible £11.3million from fund set up in her final weeks

The family of Dame Deborah James have shared how the late mother-of-two and podcast host has raised an incredible £11.3million for charity from a fund set up in the last weeks of her life

Daily Mirror

Bowelbabe fund set up by Dame Deborah James raises £11.3m

Cancer Research UK said it is now distributing funds to new projects aimed at advancing research into the disease.

The Independent UK

Dame Deborah James’ husband urges Brits to take NHS bowel cancer home tests

Dame Deborah James (also known as Bowel Babe) died of bowel cancer in June last year

The Independent UK

Dame Deborah James' husband ‘held her hand’ for two nights before she died

Sebastien Bowen said he still feels her presence in a moving interview

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Daily Mirror

Prince William's advice to Deborah James' kids after his own struggle with Diana's death

Like Deborah's James' two young children, Prince William also lost his mother, Princess Diana, at a young age. Sebastien Bowen reveals the 'powerful advice' the future king shared with his kids when he presented his late wife with a damehood in May

Evening Standard

Deborah James: Husband of cancer campaigner says pair found ‘moments of joy’ in final weeks

It comes as record numbers of people have come forward for bowel cancer checks following a campaign by Dame Deborah

Daily Mirror

Deborah James' husband says brave wife 'found joy until end' as he speaks on final days

Dame Deborah James' husband Sebastian Bowen has opened up about the Bowel Babe campaigner and mum-of-two bravely managed to embrace her last few experiences and find joy even in her final days

The Guardian - UK

Bowel cancer checks at record high after Deborah James death, says NHS

NHS England credits James’s campaign to raise awareness for surge in number of people referred for checks

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The Independent UK

Bowel cancer checks at record high ‘thanks to Dame Deborah James’

According to the NHS, between the months of May and July, 170,500 people referred for checks for suspected lower gastro-intestinal cancers.

The Independent UK

‘We told each other everything’: Deborah James’ husband on cancer campaigner’s dying days

Wife’s terminal illness ‘forced us to be grateful, to feel blessed for small things’, says widower

Manchester Evening News

Dame Deborah’s husband speaks out for first time on beloved wife's ‘peaceful’ last moments

"She had an incredibly peaceful death, if there was a way to die well, then she managed it."

Wales Online

'I told her I was so proud and she passed away' Dame Deborah James' husband describes her last moments

The bowel cancer campaigner's husband has given his first interview since she died

The Independent UK

Dame Deborah’s husband shares details of his wife’s ‘peaceful’ last moments

The cancer campaigner, also known as Bowel Babe, died in June after suffering from bowel cancer.

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The final words said to Dame Deborah James by her husband before she 'slipped away'

Dame Deborah James passed away on June 28 following a battle with bowel cancer

Evening Standard

Dame Deborah James’ husband shares his final words to her ‘before she slipped away’

The late campaigner’s husband Sebastien revealed that she had ‘an incredibly peaceful death’

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