DecemBEARD is a campaign from Beating Bowel Cancer. This campaign shows support for people with this disease by raising awareness of the disease and hence saving lives. Therefore, throughout December men everywhere have been growing beards in support of the campaign and collecting sponsorship to help beat the disease. What is DecemBEARD? It’s not just…
To mark Men’s Health Week (10-16 June) we are considering the benefits for men of bowel cancer screening and asking whether attending for a colonoscopy could be one of the best decisions you’ll ever make. Bowel cancer is treatable if it is diagnosed early. In fact nearly everyone (nine out of 10 people) whose cancer…
Did you know that millions of microorganisms live in and on your body… so many, in fact, that certain scientists call them our “second genome”? Their genes outnumber ours by 150 to one and some scientists even consider them to be another one of our organs.
New research has been hailed as good news for people who undergo surgery for bowel cancer. Read about how research shows three months of chemotherapy could be as effective as six, in certain cases.
One of the factors that make bowel cancer diagnosis so challenging for us as gastrointestinal specialists are that people sometimes feel too embarrassed to get their symptoms checked out until the disease is well advanced. This can make it much harder to treat and the chances of survival are lower. We use the term “dying…
Statistics show that one in 14 men and one in 19 women in the UK will be diagnosed with some form of colorectal cancer during their lifetime. Just over half – 57% will survive for 10 years or more. In 2015, there were 41,804 new cases of the disease. 54% per cent of all colorectal…