CELEBRITIES will hit the golf course in a Formby event organised by a mother who survived bowel cancer.
In aid of Awareness Bowel Cancer &ndash the charity was set up by Kim Joyce, who thought she would die from bowel cancer, and her consultant Paul Skaife. TV stars including Ralf Little and footballers, including Everton FC player Tony Hibbert, will be among those swinging clubs for charity. The organisers want to raise awareness of the disease and encourage people to get checked out early. She had unknowingly had cancer for two years and was told she would need an operation within weeks. Doctors said if it had been left any longer, it would have been too late to operate. She had three operations to have the tumour and part of her bowel removed and spent three and a half months in hospital, followed by six months of chemotherapy, which finished in April last year.
Kim said it was worse for her daughter, Lauren, 15, and the rest of the family who felt “powerless”.