Bowel cancer is treatable and curable if diagnosed early. So, we’re running a community-led programme to improve the early ...

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 ...

I’m a beautician who was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer after a colonoscopy on 20 December 2024, where my consultant found a 50mm tumour. I was just 20. Before my diagnosis, I had started to ...

I was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in January 2025, aged 44. In January 2025, I went from being healthy and happy to being faced with a stage 4 bowel cancer diagnosis almost overnight. It was a ...

Dame Deborah James’ parents, Alistair and Heather James, attended our awareness roadshow in Barking today, funded by the legacy of their daughter’s Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK. They are ...

I was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer on 3 December 2024, aged 57. I was born in the north of England and grew up in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, and Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific.

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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 ...

Launched in summer 2022, our #GetOnARoll campaign called on supermarkets across the country to put bowel cancer symptoms on their own brand loo roll – where people need to see them most. Right now, ...

Last year, we funded four new research projects. Our #GetOnARoll campaign turned every bathroom visit into a potential life-saving moment. We provided over 1.8 million moments of support to people ...

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.

NHS England have ended a ban on ‘treatment breaks’ for advanced bowel cancer patients, which means they can have a vital unplanned break from two drugs, without the risk of having to pay thousands of ...