What’s the worst that can happen? It already has, so let’s go!

My name is Nathaniel Dye and at the age of 36, I was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. I have been told that I am in my last year of life and - though if given a year, I’ll aim to see you in two- if my prognosis is accurate, I’ll most likely be in the ground by around March 2026, not long after my 40th birthday.

I may be dying but whilst I can, I choose to live and show the world through words and deeds that it’s possible to live a full life post-diagnosis. To raise awareness along the way in the hope that others - unlike me - can maybe catch cancer early enough to give them a hopeful outcome and a longer life.

This attitude has taken me on all sorts of adventures over the past two and a half years or so and achievements have included:

- A comeback to ultra running, covering 100 miles in 29 hours with cancer in three places and a stoma/colostomy bag

- Running the 2024 London Marathon whilst playing the trombone

- Walking and running from John O’Groats to Land’s End in 60 days, averaging 20 miles a day and covering 1,200 miles

- Recording and releasing my ‘cancer concept album’ Matters of Life and Death

- Being awarded an MBE in the 2025 New Year’s Honours List for raising cancer awareness and campaigning for an improved NHS

- Completing the 2025 London Marathon with over 50 tumours in my lungs alone

I’m proudly fundraising for Macmillan Cancer Care because they have already given me so much support in the form of medical information, counselling, media opportunities, a free will, and palliative nursing care..  Macmillan are well and truly there for people with cancer and those around them and your donation will really count!