Lynn Faulds Wood is an award-winning television presenter and journalist who survived advanced colon cancer after almost a year of medical delay. She has made many television programmes on cancer. She has helped to produce the world’s first research-based guidance on symptoms of colon cancer, and helped to pioneer diagnostic training programmes in colonoscopy and formal training centres around the United Kingdom. She is currently President of the European Cancer Patient Coalition, with a membership of over 250 cancer patient organizations in 37 countries. She also runs the British charity Lynn’s Bowel Cancer Campaign