The bowel screening programme helps to spot bowel cancer before symptoms start, when it’s most treatable. A screening kit will be sent to you in the post if you’re within the age range for the ...

Mr Jones, lead investigator for a trial looking at giving personalised cancer vaccines to people with bowel cancer, tells us more about this new treatment.

Eating a plant-based diet rich in vegetables, whole grains, nuts and legumes may reduce the risk of bowel cancer in men by more than a fifth, according to research published in BMC Medicine. A large ...

Shocking new figures show people in the UK are less likely to be diagnosed with bowel cancer at an early stage, or to live longer than five years after their diagnosis, compared with other similar ...

A new report out today shows bowel cancer costs the UK economy more than £1.7 billion (€1.9 billion) a year. The report, commissioned by Digestive Cancers Europe, calculated the cost of diagnosis and ...

Low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) is also known as anterior resection syndrome. It’s a collection of bowel symptoms that can happen after surgery to remove all or part of your rectum. These ...

Today we’re delighted to announce that Mr Joshua Burke from the University of Leeds, and Miss Rachael Clifford from the University of Liverpool have both been awarded Research Fellowships, funded ...

A new bowel cancer drug, which can double progression-free survival time for some people with advanced bowel cancer, has been approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) ...

Bacteria commonly found in our guts could contribute to the development of bowel cancer, according to a new study published in Nature today. The study, led by scientists in the UK, the USA and the ...

This month, the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG), alongside the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) and Public Health England (PHE)'s Bowel Cancer Screening ...

Nearly a third of bowel cancer patients experience a delay to their diagnosis that could have been avoided, according to a new study published in Cancer Epidemiology. The study looked at national ...

A new bowel cancer drug, which can double progression-free survival time for some people with advanced bowel cancer, has been approved by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) for patients in ...