Walter Damen looks back on 2025: “If I had done that stool test three years earlier, I could have saved everyone a lot of misery”

Before his nomination as Belgian of the Year, Walter Damen looks back in VTM News on a year that completely shook up his life. An almost forgotten stool test revealed colon cancer and led to a difficult hospital stay, but also made him a figurehead for early detection. “If I had done that test three years earlier, I could have saved everyone a lot of misery.” At the same time, he continues to warn about another crisis that concerns him: the underfunding of the justice system.

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