Speaking from lived experience
SPEAKING & MEDIA
Joe Butler speaks about mouth cancer, early detection, patient experience and what happens after treatment ends.
His talks combine lived experience with practical awareness — including identity, communication, family, recovery and the parts of survival that are harder to put into a leaflet.
Talks built from lived experience
WHAT I SPEAK ABOUT
MOUTH CANCER AWARENESS
Early detection, symptoms, diagnosis and why being mouth-aware matters — grounded in the experience of being diagnosed at twenty-seven with no known risk factors.
PATIENT EXPERIENCE & LIFE AFTER TREATMENT
Surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, communication, recovery, identity and the parts of survivorship that begin after the hospital appointments become less frequent.
STORYTELLING, IDENTITY & DISMANTLED
Why survival stories are often told too neatly, what writing can preserve, and what it means to rebuild a life without pretending everything returned to normal.
Lived experience, clearly communicated
EXPERIENCE & MEDIA
Joe speaks from direct experience of diagnosis, major surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and long-term recovery after mouth cancer.
He is an ambassador for the Oral Health Foundation and can contribute to conversations about mouth-cancer awareness, early detection, patient experience, survivorship, identity and life after treatment.
His work is suitable for:
Podcasts · Radio · Television · Print & online media · Conferences · Awareness events · Healthcare and patient audiences
For media enquiries, interviews or expert-by-experience contributions, use the enquiry form below.
Speaking, media or event enquiries
ENQUIRIES
For talks, interviews, podcasts, awareness events, healthcare audiences or other media opportunities, use the form below.
Please include the event or publication, proposed date, format and any deadlines where relevant.
New writing, book news and the work behind it.
Occasional emails from Joe Butler about new essays, Dismantled, speaking and what is being built next.