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Merlin Griffiths’ ‘horrific’ cancer battle and how life will ‘never be the same’ again: ‘It’s quite a major amputation’

Merlin Griffiths was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2021. After 18 months of treatment, he was rid of it – but not its lingering effects.

TV bartender Merlin Griffiths was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2021, and opened up about the gruelling treatments he underwent in order to fight it in a recent interview. A few months after receiving the good news the cancer had gone, Merlin revealed that he’d been suffering with a condition called low anterior resection syndrome – something he’ll have for the rest of his life. Griffiths predicts that most people underestimate the lingering effects of cancer treatment on patients (Credit: The Chefs’ Forum/YouTube) At the time, doctors reportedly told him he had a 75% chance of surviving past five years.

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