Lucie Morris-Marr

2 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Lucie Morris-Marr

A patient in Australia has lived for more than 100 days with a BiVACOR titanium device, first dreamt up by Daniel Timms and his fatherGary Timms had suffered from slowly progressive heart failure for more than five years. But in the end, his passing aged 55 was swift and cruel. "It was very fast, you know, like from the admission to the ICU, and then it was just... very, very quick," his son Daniel says, his voice halting briefly.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Lucie Morris-Marr

As we pulled out of the hospital car park, my husband and I were in a dazed silence. I know the date. I’ll never forget it: November 7, 2019. Everything in my life until that point would now be known as ‘BBC’ – Before Bowel Cancer. A few minutes earlier, I’d leaned forward and put my head in my hands as a neatly suited bowel surgeon confirmed my worst fears. Following the discovery of a large mass in my colon a few days before, a biopsy had revealed it was indeed cancerous.

2 months ago | news.com.au | Lucie Morris-Marr

‘Hello?’ I said. ‘Oh, hello. Is that Lucie Morris-Marr?’‘Yes.’‘Good news. We have a liver for you.’For a moment I had no words. I’d waited for this call for six months and had started to wonder whether it would ever come in time. They were holding back the metastatic bowel cancer tumours in my liver with targeted antibody infusions every two weeks. I was stable, but the cancer was there. We had run out of options.

2 months ago | smh.com.au | Lucie Morris-Marr

Ham, bacon, election day snags: processed meats are baked into Australia’s culinary culture. They’re also linked to sky-high rates of cancer. So why do we keep eating them so voraciously, asks a writer and mother with a stage-four diagnosis. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the February 1 edition of Good Weekend.See all 10 stories. A sharp, irritating and piercing beeping noise wakes me rudely.

Nov 3, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Lucie Morris-Marr |George Styllis |Ysenda Maxtone Graham |Ewan Somerville

Everyone knows everyone by name in Leongatha (population 5,869), a small dairy farming community, 84 miles south-east of Melbourne. It's just that kind of close-knit rural Australian town, set among green fields and towering eucalyptus trees in the pretty foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges in South Gippsland Shire, Victoria.