Bad Blood: The Diary of a Cancer
Jamie East, a healthy and successful man, was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia in June 2025. He documents his journey through diagnosis, treatment, and the impact on his family in this foul-mouthed audio diary. The podcast aims to make sense of his diagnosis and the impending chemotherapy, offering a raw and personal perspective on living with cancer.
Episodes
4. The Future
In this episode, Jamie marks the one-year anniversary of his Leukaemia diagnosis and uses that milestone to talk about something that’s been making him furious: the rise of unqualified health “experts”, and a particularly dangerous example from Stephen Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO.Jamie revisits a viral clip he recorded from his hospital bed in July 2025, calling out a Bartlett trailer that appeared
3. The Reset
In this deeply personal episode, Jamie reflects on life in the strange limbo between diagnosis and “getting back to normal.” Recorded just before his first tentative trip back into the outside world after treatment, he talks honestly about friendship, identity, guilt, and what it really feels like to be given another shot at life.Jamie also shares another powerful clip from his earlier conversatio
2. The Biopsy
In this episode, Jamie heads to the Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre in Glasgow, meeting Professor David Vitrie and Dr. Vigne Helgerson to dig into what chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) actually is – and how long it might have been silently living in his body.What starts as a “back‑of‑the‑fag‑packet” explanation of CML turns into something far more personal. Jamie reflects on the moment he realis
1. The Phonecall
The Phone Call That Changed My Life.In the first episode of Bad Blood: The Diary of a Cancer, Jamie opens up about the moment everything changed: the phone call that told him he likely had leukaemia.Recorded around the time of his initial diagnosis and revisited one year on, this episode sets the stage for a four-part series charting Jamie’s journey through chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) from shoc
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Trigger Warning: This podcast tackles topics that some listeners may find distressing.Resources:Leukaemia UK - a brilliant charity.Stand Up To CancerMore information on Chronic Myleoid LeukaemiaThe School of Cancer Sciences Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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