A father blamed drinking Oasis and eating red cabbage on his urine changing colour – but he actually had bladder cancer.
Craig Kemp said he first noticed something was wrong when he went to the toilet at work and said it was like ‘weeing Ribena’.
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At first, the 38-year-old thought it was because he had red cabbage in his sandwich.
‘I looked online and read that red cabbage can change the colour of your wee so I just thought “oh it must be that”,’ he said.
But then two weeks later, the dad-of-two saw that his urine was discoloured again.
But he dismissed it a second time as he had just downed a red Oasis.
When discolouration happened again three weeks later, the store manager could not blame it on food or drink.
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He said: ‘It was really thick blood and that was when I really began to worry and I knew something was wrong.’
After seeing a GP, he was taken for tests and a camera was inserted into his bladder.
Doctors then dealt the devastating blow that they had found a tumour and it was cancerous.
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Craig, from Maghull, Merseyside, said: ‘I was in total shock. I wasn’t expecting it at all and immediately thought of what was going to happen to me – will I die? How long have I got? How will I tell my family?’
Craig had an operation to remove the tumour and thankfully, four years on, he remains cancer free.
More than 10,000 people a year are diagnosed with bladder cancer in the UK and over 9,000 with urothelial cancer.
He said: ‘I am very lucky that I was even referred by my GP so I am really grateful to him because the cancer was caught in its early stages.
‘One of the things with bladder cancer is it is one of the most reoccurring cancers and I will have to have check-ups for the rest of my life.
‘It is always in the back of my mind and I do think about it most days but in a funny way it was good for me.’
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