Bowel (colorectal) cancer

Around 43,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with bowel cancer every year. Also known as colorectal cancer, bowel cancer is the 4th most common cancer in the UK.

Symptoms of bowel cancer can include a change in your normal bowel habit – such as pooing more often, looser poo or constipation – or blood in your poo.

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Health & Medicine

Bowel cancer could be prevented by screening, according to major new study

A single bowel examination at around age sixty, with on-the-spot treatment for precancerous growths, could dramatically reduce the number of deaths from bowel cancer. A single bowel examination at around age sixty, with on-the-spot treatment for precancerous growths, could dramatically reduce the number of deaths from bowel cancer.

by Cancer Research UK | News | 11 April 2002

11 April 2002

Bowel cancer deaths the lowest for 10 years

The number of people dying from bowel cancer in Britain has fallen to a 10-year low, according to the latest figures from Cancer Research UK. The number of people dying from bowel cancer in Britain has fallen to a 10-year low, according to the latest figures from Cancer Research UK.

by Cancer Research UK | News | 1 March 2002

1 March 2002

Cancer News

Bowel (colorectal) cancer

Bowel cancer could be prevented by screening, according to major new study

Bowel cancer deaths the lowest for 10 years