Stephen Rowley

My training is in science, engineering and the arts and I have worked and collaborated internationally all of my life. I played a role in the development of the internet and maintain a technological thread in my life, despite leaving the IT industry in 1993 to concentrate on the arts. A multi-disciplinary artist, musician and keen sailor. Founded an international music festival & society in 1999 and a national conference for folk drama in 2011. I am a patient advocate at with the NHS at local and regional level. I help to organise cancer rehabilitation services locally. In 2020 I founded a national bowel cancer support group.

I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2015, completed treatment and now NED. My brother died of the disease in 2018.

Colorectal cancer, Prehab, Rehabilitation, online peer support.