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Our roadshow is heading to Portsmouth

Tuesday 15 April 2025

We’re excited to invite Portsmouth locals to walk inside a giant inflatable bowel, when it tours the city, to raise awareness of bowel cancer and its symptoms.

One in three adults can't name a single symptom of bowel cancer

Monday 31 March 2025

New research reveals that 35% of adults in Great Britain cannot identify a single symptom of bowel cancer – the second deadliest cancer in the UK.

Dr Damien Marmion has been named as our new Chair of Trustees

Monday 24 March 2025

Dr Damien Marmion has been appointed as Bowel Cancer UK Chair of Trustees. He takes over from Richard Anderson who stepped down from the role in March 2025

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Nick Thomas-Symonds MP hosts bowel cancer screening debate in parliament

Monday 30 April 2018

Ahead of the debate, we are calling for vital improvements to be made to the bowel cancer screening programme.

We hand in petition signed by nearly half a million people to lower screening age

Thursday 26 April 2018

Today we are handing in a Change.org petition to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Hunt MP.

We award grants to fund bowel cancer research worth nearly £440,000

Wednesday 25 April 2018

These awards are part of our investment to support research with the greatest benefits for those at risk and affected by bowel cancer, which we publicised last year.

Six in ten adults unaware that 30 mins of physical activity most days reduces bowel cancer risk

Tuesday 24 April 2018

Almost two thirds of adults living in the UK are not aware that being physically active for 30 minutes a day at least five times a week could help to reduce the risk of bowel cancer, according to a poll…

We've appointed the UK's first Bowel Cancer UK & RCS Eng Colorectal Research Chair

Monday 16 April 2018

We’re delighted to announce that Professor David Jayne, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, has been appointed the UK’s first Bowel Cancer UK/Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS Eng) Colorectal Research…

We warn of alarmingly low symptom awareness for bowel cancer

Wednesday 11 April 2018

A quarter of people only named one of the five most common bowel cancer symptoms and more than 1 in 3 people (35%) were not aware of any symptoms at all

New 'one stop shops' for cancer to speed up diagnosis and save lives

Tuesday 3 April 2018

New ‘one stop shops’ designed to speed-up cancer diagnosis and help save lives are being rolled out across England.

Former Health Secretary Lord Lansley reveals he has bowel cancer

Tuesday 3 April 2018

For Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, the former Health Secretary Lord Andrew Lansley has revealed that he has bowel cancer and says that his disease could have been caught sooner had a pilot national screening…

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