June 17, 2025 • 14 mins
This Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, Radio Hauraki’s Day in Loo event returns for the third year in a row.
Taking place from 6am to 6pm on Wednesday June 18, this year’s event is set to take place in 'the bowels of Eden Park', with all proceeds going to Bowel Cancer NZ.
Bowel Cancer NZ chief executive Peter Huskinson joined the Afternoons team to discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk zed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Iconic Radio Personalities, Sporting Legends, and other well known kiwis
will unite tomorrow from six am for a twelve hour
live broadcast from the bowels of Eden Park for Radio
Hurarkies Third Day and lou event to raise awareness of
bow cancer. The charity Bellcancer New Zealand does fantastic work.
It obviously affects a lot of kiwi's and right now
we have the CEO of Bell Canton, New Zealand, Peter Huskinson,
(00:39):
in studio.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Peter getaw So you're you're you're the new new boss.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
You've been there for about seven months? Is that right?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah, And how's it going.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
It's going really well. Actually, I've been really struck by
just the amazing, I guess resilience of people walking through
this journey that we're able to stand beside, but also
the passion of people who want to see batter for
New Zealand and want to be part of the movement
to make things happen and change things.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So yeah, so how you guys funded?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Ah, Look, we don't take any central government funding. That's
so that means we're not super flush, but it also
means that we can be completely independent and we see
things that aren't as they should be, we can call
that out and advocate for the right thing. So we
get donations. We have some wonderful sponsors who give us
money and some companies who we work with, but also
I would say the vast majority is just regular key
(01:32):
is just giving us slipping as a few quid during
movie of in February, or maybe giving us a little
bit every month out of their paycheck, and that's really
the lifeblood of the charity.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, if you want to donate some money now, you
can text Lo Lou to three seven seven nine.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
That's Lou to.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Three three seven nine and there'll be a three back
donation right there. How bad is the bell cancer problem
in New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Look, it's a big deal for three reasons. So firstly,
it's common. You know, we've got among the highest bow
cancer rates in the world. About three hundred keys this
month will be told you have bow cancer. That's people. Secondly,
it's deadly, so after lung cancer, it's a top cans
of killer in New Zealand. So there will be one
hundred families each month will lose a loved one and
(02:15):
that's that's a tragedy. But the good news is it's treatable.
So ninety people survived by cancer if they're called at
stage one, that means that forty five lives every month
could be being saved. So that forty five is a
key number that really motivates.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It so important. Now, just while while we're having a
chip during the ear break, you mentioned a survey that
you've undertaken. The full results are yet to come out,
but was a fascinating state. You mentioned about how few
Keywis could name a single symptom of bell cancer.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah, that's right. We've partnered with tra big market research
agency who do a lot of national work and what
they did is they sampled right across New Zealand, represent
it by age and this tea location, urban rural. What
they found was when asked can you name a symptom
of bow cancer, one in four people couldn't name a
single one. And as there are probably five key ones
(03:08):
to look for, that's a real issue.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Okay, okay, so there's I'll just have a go here.
There's bleeding from your backside, a change in your belle movements,
that's right, Ah, pains and your tummy.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Three.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
He's not a role.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He's not a role.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Now now now I'm grasping. Now, now I'm stiss. Is
it like some something like tiredness.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Or number four four our.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Ah, that's me, that's okay.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
The the other one is unexplained weight.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Loss, unexplained waste lot weight loss? Right, okay, So what's
the nicest way to say, bleeding from your backside from.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
The you're spotting something red when you've been to the league,
something about it?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
And who gets hit by a bell cancer in New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
So there's a common myth that this is just a
thing for old people. It is true that your risk
does rise with age, but what we're seeing is really
a lot of people who are under fifty increasing numbers.
About twenty three percent rise per decade in people under
fifty getting a bell cancer.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Wow, it's getting worse.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
It's getting more common. That's right. We're having some success
for the people at an old age because we're screening them,
and screening actually prevents cancer, doesn't just cure it, so
it doesn't just catch it. So I think it's still
it's still more likely as you get older, but that
curve is tilting if you like. So it's becoming more
(04:43):
and more common, which is why around the world, just
as our Prime Minister less him promised, people are screening
much earlier forty five in some places forty and so on.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And we are joined in studio buying the CEO of
Bell Cancer New Zealand, Peter Haskinson. Peter, thank you very
much again for your time. It is of course Bell
Cancer Awareness Months as well, and just a reminder if
you want to donate, takes lou l low to three
seven seven nine. That makes an instant three buck donation.
Fantastic charity. And boy do we need more awareness around belcam.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
We've got full lines, but keep trying on eight hundred
and eighty teen eighty. Here's just a question that I
thought was interesting that got texted in early, got texted
that someone texted in earlier. My son keeps getting readiness
on his paper. He's sixteen. Doc says it's nothing, but
I am worried. Is it possible to bypass doctor and
get a private colonoscopy?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Hi, yes, it is. It is possible to do that
you can get a private coloscopy. You can also get
a private screening test by screening test igens. Do them,
mercy screening, do them. It's it's not super cheap. It's
probably about one hundred and fifty one hundred eighty bucks
to do that if you want a test. But you
can certainly do that. And you can also get a
(05:53):
coloscopy privately if you want to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Ye right, great.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh e one hundred and eighteen eighty is the number
to call.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Ray Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Hi guys. I was wanting just to share my experience
with getting colonoscopy. So it's people who know I mean, well,
I've got no shame, so I'll just tell you how
it was of One of one of my friends was
signed as with fell cancer probably three years ago. Luckily
he went through treatment and that has been really good
(06:23):
and come to a positive conclusion. He went out to
all his guy mates and just said, look, if you
are over forty, you should really consider getting a colonoscopy.
The reason I went and talked to a doctor is
because I was noticing a little bit of blood in
my store. As it turns out, there was probably around
a internal hemorrhoid not related to bell cancer. But when
(06:47):
I talked to the doctor about it, and I talked
about my concerns because I've got family history of bell
cancer as well, he referred me on to get a colonoscomy.
He asked me, do you have private health insurance? I
said no, I don't, so he referred me through the
public system, but I got treated at a private center.
In The wait time was about a month. It was
(07:07):
really really work leading up to the colonoscopy. You need
to fast for a short period of time. Then you
need to drink a liquid which I guess you'd say
is like a laxative to clear everything out of your vowels.
Then when I went to have the kolonoscopy, they sedate
(07:28):
you with some sentanyl. I was very clear that I
didn't want to be knocked out. And I guess a
lot of people, probably guys, are concerned about a doctor
shoving a tube up their bottom. But let will tell you,
when they have put fental sentinel into your system, you
will not be worried about that won't be scary, and
(07:51):
you thank arious and you'll be completely right. So after
this process they clipped out three or four polyups. Now,
polyps are what can over time grow inform into a cancers.
Cancers growth, and when they clip those out of your
call on, I guess they send them away for a biopsy.
(08:13):
They came back clear, there's no problems for me, and
I will go back and have another coloscopy. And I
think I think I said like three four, five years.
I can't remember. I talked to the doctor recently and
they said, yep, we've got you on our radar and
we'll let you know when it's happening. So I guess
my thoughts are, if you are a man, who's if,
(08:34):
if you're anyone, if you're anyone over about age forty,
and you've got any concerns about why you might be
the higher risk of belt cancer, maybe there is blood
on the toilet paper, maybe the family history. Well, maybe
you just not maybe you're just not feeling like you know,
there's been a change in the pattern of your normal pulling.
Go and talk to a doctor. And I couldn't more
(08:54):
highly recommend it. And as I said, if you're worried
about a guy sicking a tube up your bottom, the
fence as I'd give you too, well will really help
to alleviate that phenobios.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
What an embassed a rays fantastic, nothing to be, nothing
to fear.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yeah, I feel like I need to move over a job.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Just just on what Ray was saying. I mean, is
that generally, I mentioned that is quite a barrier for
some meanners. They are concerned about that process, right, They
might have heard or you know, joked around with their
mates about what happens, and there's that fear or embarrassment
about going in. Do you find that as a barrier
for particularly younger guys.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I think it certainly. Anecdotally it can be. I think
more more commonly, though, what people do is they get
a symptom and they put it. They think it's probably
something else. So, you know, I'm feeling tiers, so maybe
I'm just long a gain of sleep or oh you know,
I've I've changed my boy a habit of Well, that's
probably just something else. So maybe I'm stressed. So what
people do is they kind of ascribe it to something
(09:57):
else rather than do the do the smart thing and
just get checked out. Yeah. You know, we've got a
symptom checker on our website actually, and sometimes that can
be helpful because when you go and click and have
a little look. You think, oh, I've got this thing,
and then you oh, no, I've actually got this other thing.
And that's that's that's common too, so so certainly that
was my experience. I ended up working for this organization
because I had some concerns, checked it out and then
(10:20):
I got some great advice from the people at Parkinson
ucland Victoria Support Nurse. So I was paying. I was
a customer, if you like, at this service, and then
I ended up I've ended up working for it. But
it is it is. It's definitely for something to get
checked out. There's no need to be waiting being anxious
about it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, fantastic the sticks that I know the camera is small,
but what about the tripod?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
How big? Is that It's a misunderstanding.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Not quite that situation, thankfully for a lot of people. Theresa,
how are you, I'm good, Thank you. Peter is standing
by for your question.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
I just wandered I've often noticed in just like the
previous caller said, that people often think when when they
see some blood, they'll put it down to being hemorrhoids.
And I just wondered, is there were different in the
way blood shows up of humanoid deserters ab all cancer.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, thanks for your question. I'm mean to preface this
by saying I've worked in the health service, but I'm
not a medical doctor. So but I guess the key
thing I would say is, you know, I'm not sure
that you me and and and and Joe public are
always the best at you know, discerning one thing from
another in that way. So I think the thing is
(11:35):
if you've if you're having some blood, the best thing
to do get checked out, you know, and you know,
have a chat with your GP. There are going to
be some changes in the way we manage about our
cancer in New Zealand coming up in the in the
in the coming months. That will mean that that that
that very simple at home test you can do will
be something that your GP should be able to make
available for you in the future. So there'll be some
(11:56):
there are already some good options and and and ultimately,
if they're not sure, they'll send you for investigation. And
that's probably the best way to best way to be sure,
better safe than sorry, all the best reason. I think.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
What's the saying that there's no point in dying of embarrassment? Yeah, absolutely,
just just go and get it checked out.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I mean good cal just just very good.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Cool, because there's no threshold, really is there. So if
you're worried, then go and see your doctor.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, question here if by text his Hi Peter, fantastic
work you guys do, how much does that affect the
Bell cancer risk?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Great? Great question. Look, there are there are five big
risks that you five big things you can do to
reduce your risk, and eating better is definitely one of those.
So having enough milk and calcium, having more fiber, so
hupping those things. Less meat, less processed meat, sadly is
definitely one of those things. The other things that kind
of you cut down on the alcohol, try and get
(12:52):
your weight healthy, stop smoking, be active. They're they're they're
the key things. But certainly better eating is up there.
It's one of the big five.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Afternoon, I had a colonoscopy a year. There's quite a
regime getting ready, three leaders of liquid and a whole
bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I decided to do it without a sedative.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I don't know whether I'm dumb or not, but yeah,
I highly recommend guys get one, but I would seduce Taking.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
The editor you'd agree with that Peter, Well, I took
this out of tip when I had one, and yeah
I can I can agree with that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, fantastic, Peter, Really great to have you on. It's
fantastic to get that information out there. And if people
want a bit for a bit more information, what's the
website they can go to.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Just google barcust in New Zealand and you'll got it.
It's bar conser Endzador donzad.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And if you want to donate very quickly text Lou
to three seven seven nine. That's Lo to three seven
seven nine and you'll make an instant three dollar donation.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And just a remind day in Lou tomorrow on Radio HODIKEI,
a twelve hour live broadcast Peter, you'll be hitting down
to say get out of the guys.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's a fantastic day and raising money for a fantastic charity.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I'll be there from seven am.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Love it yep.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Fantastic Peter, Nice to see you. We'll catch up again soon.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Wonderful. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
That is the CEO of Boalcanson, New Zealand, Peter Huskinson.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
For more from newstalkset B listen live on air or online,
and keep our shows with you wherever you go with
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You're listening to a podcast from News Talk zed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Iconic Radio Personalities, Sporting Legends, and other well known kiwis
will unite tomorrow from six am for a twelve hour
live broadcast from the bowels of Eden Park for Radio
Hurarkies Third Day and lou event to raise awareness of
bow cancer. The charity Bellcancer New Zealand does fantastic work.
It obviously affects a lot of kiwi's and right now
we have the CEO of Bell Canton, New Zealand, Peter Huskinson,
(00:39):
in studio.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Peter getaw So you're you're you're the new new boss.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
You've been there for about seven months? Is that right?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah, And how's it going.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
It's going really well. Actually, I've been really struck by
just the amazing, I guess resilience of people walking through
this journey that we're able to stand beside, but also
the passion of people who want to see batter for
New Zealand and want to be part of the movement
to make things happen and change things.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
So yeah, so how you guys funded?
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Ah, Look, we don't take any central government funding. That's
so that means we're not super flush, but it also
means that we can be completely independent and we see
things that aren't as they should be, we can call
that out and advocate for the right thing. So we
get donations. We have some wonderful sponsors who give us
money and some companies who we work with, but also
I would say the vast majority is just regular key
(01:32):
is just giving us slipping as a few quid during
movie of in February, or maybe giving us a little
bit every month out of their paycheck, and that's really
the lifeblood of the charity.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, if you want to donate some money now, you
can text Lo Lou to three seven seven nine.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
That's Lou to.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Three three seven nine and there'll be a three back
donation right there. How bad is the bell cancer problem
in New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Look, it's a big deal for three reasons. So firstly,
it's common. You know, we've got among the highest bow
cancer rates in the world. About three hundred keys this
month will be told you have bow cancer. That's people. Secondly,
it's deadly, so after lung cancer, it's a top cans
of killer in New Zealand. So there will be one
hundred families each month will lose a loved one and
(02:15):
that's that's a tragedy. But the good news is it's treatable.
So ninety people survived by cancer if they're called at
stage one, that means that forty five lives every month
could be being saved. So that forty five is a
key number that really motivates.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It so important. Now, just while while we're having a
chip during the ear break, you mentioned a survey that
you've undertaken. The full results are yet to come out,
but was a fascinating state. You mentioned about how few
Keywis could name a single symptom of bell cancer.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah, that's right. We've partnered with tra big market research
agency who do a lot of national work and what
they did is they sampled right across New Zealand, represent
it by age and this tea location, urban rural. What
they found was when asked can you name a symptom
of bow cancer, one in four people couldn't name a
single one. And as there are probably five key ones
(03:08):
to look for, that's a real issue.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Okay, okay, so there's I'll just have a go here.
There's bleeding from your backside, a change in your belle movements,
that's right, Ah, pains and your tummy.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Three.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
He's not a role.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He's not a role.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Now now now I'm grasping. Now, now I'm stiss. Is
it like some something like tiredness.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Or number four four our.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Ah, that's me, that's okay.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
The the other one is unexplained weight.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Loss, unexplained waste lot weight loss? Right, okay, So what's
the nicest way to say, bleeding from your backside from.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
The you're spotting something red when you've been to the league,
something about it?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
And who gets hit by a bell cancer in New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
So there's a common myth that this is just a
thing for old people. It is true that your risk
does rise with age, but what we're seeing is really
a lot of people who are under fifty increasing numbers.
About twenty three percent rise per decade in people under
fifty getting a bell cancer.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Wow, it's getting worse.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
It's getting more common. That's right. We're having some success
for the people at an old age because we're screening them,
and screening actually prevents cancer, doesn't just cure it, so
it doesn't just catch it. So I think it's still
it's still more likely as you get older, but that
curve is tilting if you like. So it's becoming more
(04:43):
and more common, which is why around the world, just
as our Prime Minister less him promised, people are screening
much earlier forty five in some places forty and so on.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
And we are joined in studio buying the CEO of
Bell Cancer New Zealand, Peter Haskinson. Peter, thank you very
much again for your time. It is of course Bell
Cancer Awareness Months as well, and just a reminder if
you want to donate, takes lou l low to three
seven seven nine. That makes an instant three buck donation.
Fantastic charity. And boy do we need more awareness around belcam.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
We've got full lines, but keep trying on eight hundred
and eighty teen eighty. Here's just a question that I
thought was interesting that got texted in early, got texted
that someone texted in earlier. My son keeps getting readiness
on his paper. He's sixteen. Doc says it's nothing, but
I am worried. Is it possible to bypass doctor and
get a private colonoscopy?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Hi, yes, it is. It is possible to do that
you can get a private coloscopy. You can also get
a private screening test by screening test igens. Do them,
mercy screening, do them. It's it's not super cheap. It's
probably about one hundred and fifty one hundred eighty bucks
to do that if you want a test. But you
can certainly do that. And you can also get a
(05:53):
coloscopy privately if you want to do that.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Ye right, great.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh e one hundred and eighteen eighty is the number
to call.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Ray Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Hi guys. I was wanting just to share my experience
with getting colonoscopy. So it's people who know I mean, well,
I've got no shame, so I'll just tell you how
it was of One of one of my friends was
signed as with fell cancer probably three years ago. Luckily
he went through treatment and that has been really good
(06:23):
and come to a positive conclusion. He went out to
all his guy mates and just said, look, if you
are over forty, you should really consider getting a colonoscopy.
The reason I went and talked to a doctor is
because I was noticing a little bit of blood in
my store. As it turns out, there was probably around
a internal hemorrhoid not related to bell cancer. But when
(06:47):
I talked to the doctor about it, and I talked
about my concerns because I've got family history of bell
cancer as well, he referred me on to get a colonoscomy.
He asked me, do you have private health insurance? I
said no, I don't, so he referred me through the
public system, but I got treated at a private center.
In The wait time was about a month. It was
(07:07):
really really work leading up to the colonoscopy. You need
to fast for a short period of time. Then you
need to drink a liquid which I guess you'd say
is like a laxative to clear everything out of your vowels.
Then when I went to have the kolonoscopy, they sedate
(07:28):
you with some sentanyl. I was very clear that I
didn't want to be knocked out. And I guess a
lot of people, probably guys, are concerned about a doctor
shoving a tube up their bottom. But let will tell you,
when they have put fental sentinel into your system, you
will not be worried about that won't be scary, and
(07:51):
you thank arious and you'll be completely right. So after
this process they clipped out three or four polyups. Now,
polyps are what can over time grow inform into a cancers.
Cancers growth, and when they clip those out of your
call on, I guess they send them away for a biopsy.
(08:13):
They came back clear, there's no problems for me, and
I will go back and have another coloscopy. And I
think I think I said like three four, five years.
I can't remember. I talked to the doctor recently and
they said, yep, we've got you on our radar and
we'll let you know when it's happening. So I guess
my thoughts are, if you are a man, who's if,
(08:34):
if you're anyone, if you're anyone over about age forty,
and you've got any concerns about why you might be
the higher risk of belt cancer, maybe there is blood
on the toilet paper, maybe the family history. Well, maybe
you just not maybe you're just not feeling like you know,
there's been a change in the pattern of your normal pulling.
Go and talk to a doctor. And I couldn't more
(08:54):
highly recommend it. And as I said, if you're worried
about a guy sicking a tube up your bottom, the
fence as I'd give you too, well will really help
to alleviate that phenobios.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
What an embassed a rays fantastic, nothing to be, nothing
to fear.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
Yeah, I feel like I need to move over a job.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Just just on what Ray was saying. I mean, is
that generally, I mentioned that is quite a barrier for
some meanners. They are concerned about that process, right, They
might have heard or you know, joked around with their
mates about what happens, and there's that fear or embarrassment
about going in. Do you find that as a barrier
for particularly younger guys.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I think it certainly. Anecdotally it can be. I think
more more commonly, though, what people do is they get
a symptom and they put it. They think it's probably
something else. So, you know, I'm feeling tiers, so maybe
I'm just long a gain of sleep or oh you know,
I've I've changed my boy a habit of Well, that's
probably just something else. So maybe I'm stressed. So what
people do is they kind of ascribe it to something
(09:57):
else rather than do the do the smart thing and
just get checked out. Yeah. You know, we've got a
symptom checker on our website actually, and sometimes that can
be helpful because when you go and click and have
a little look. You think, oh, I've got this thing,
and then you oh, no, I've actually got this other thing.
And that's that's that's common too, so so certainly that
was my experience. I ended up working for this organization
because I had some concerns, checked it out and then
(10:20):
I got some great advice from the people at Parkinson
ucland Victoria Support Nurse. So I was paying. I was
a customer, if you like, at this service, and then
I ended up I've ended up working for it. But
it is it is. It's definitely for something to get
checked out. There's no need to be waiting being anxious
about it.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, fantastic the sticks that I know the camera is small,
but what about the tripod?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
How big? Is that It's a misunderstanding.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Not quite that situation, thankfully for a lot of people. Theresa,
how are you, I'm good, Thank you. Peter is standing
by for your question.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
I just wandered I've often noticed in just like the
previous caller said, that people often think when when they
see some blood, they'll put it down to being hemorrhoids.
And I just wondered, is there were different in the
way blood shows up of humanoid deserters ab all cancer.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, thanks for your question. I'm mean to preface this
by saying I've worked in the health service, but I'm
not a medical doctor. So but I guess the key
thing I would say is, you know, I'm not sure
that you me and and and and Joe public are
always the best at you know, discerning one thing from
another in that way. So I think the thing is
(11:35):
if you've if you're having some blood, the best thing
to do get checked out, you know, and you know,
have a chat with your GP. There are going to
be some changes in the way we manage about our
cancer in New Zealand coming up in the in the
in the coming months. That will mean that that that
that very simple at home test you can do will
be something that your GP should be able to make
available for you in the future. So there'll be some
(11:56):
there are already some good options and and and ultimately,
if they're not sure, they'll send you for investigation. And
that's probably the best way to best way to be sure,
better safe than sorry, all the best reason. I think.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
What's the saying that there's no point in dying of embarrassment? Yeah, absolutely,
just just go and get it checked out.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I mean good cal just just very good.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Cool, because there's no threshold, really is there. So if
you're worried, then go and see your doctor.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yeah, question here if by text his Hi Peter, fantastic
work you guys do, how much does that affect the
Bell cancer risk?
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Great? Great question. Look, there are there are five big
risks that you five big things you can do to
reduce your risk, and eating better is definitely one of those.
So having enough milk and calcium, having more fiber, so
hupping those things. Less meat, less processed meat, sadly is
definitely one of those things. The other things that kind
of you cut down on the alcohol, try and get
(12:52):
your weight healthy, stop smoking, be active. They're they're they're
the key things. But certainly better eating is up there.
It's one of the big five.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Afternoon, I had a colonoscopy a year. There's quite a
regime getting ready, three leaders of liquid and a whole
bunch of other stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
I decided to do it without a sedative.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I don't know whether I'm dumb or not, but yeah,
I highly recommend guys get one, but I would seduce Taking.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
The editor you'd agree with that Peter, Well, I took
this out of tip when I had one, and yeah
I can I can agree with that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, fantastic, Peter, Really great to have you on. It's
fantastic to get that information out there. And if people
want a bit for a bit more information, what's the
website they can go to.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Just google barcust in New Zealand and you'll got it.
It's bar conser Endzador donzad.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
And if you want to donate very quickly text Lou
to three seven seven nine. That's Lo to three seven
seven nine and you'll make an instant three dollar donation.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
And just a remind day in Lou tomorrow on Radio HODIKEI,
a twelve hour live broadcast Peter, you'll be hitting down
to say get out of the guys.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's a fantastic day and raising money for a fantastic charity.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I'll be there from seven am.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Love it yep.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Fantastic Peter, Nice to see you. We'll catch up again soon.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
Wonderful. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
That is the CEO of Boalcanson, New Zealand, Peter Huskinson.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
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