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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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The Gary Logue Colorectal Cancer Nurse Award winners

Friday 13 September 2019

We’re proud to reveal the winners of the fifth annual Gary Logue Colorectal Cancer Nurse Award.

Free colorectal cancer study day for healthcare professionals in Northern Ireland

Friday 13 September 2019

The free study day is an essential update on the changes to the bowel screening programme, the importance of genetic counselling, top tips for practitioners on how to look after themselves in challenging…

Bowel cancer survival in the UK improving, but lagging behind other countries

Thursday 12 September 2019

Cancer survival rates in the UK have improved markedly over recent decades but still lag behind those of comparable countries, major research published in The Lancet has shown.

We fund the first bowel cancer clinical lead in Wales

Wednesday 11 September 2019

The Wales Cancer Network appoints Professor Jared Torkington, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Cardiff and Vale Health Board, as the country's first Bowel Cancer Clinical Lead, funded by the charity.

We've been highly commended by the BMA Patient Information Awards 2019

Tuesday 10 September 2019

We’re delighted to announce our ‘Younger People with Bowel Cancer: a guide for the under 50s’ has been highly commended by the British Medical Association (BMA) patient information awards.

We announce two new Bowel Cancer UK and RCS research fellows

Tuesday 10 September 2019

Mr Joshua Burke from the University of Leeds, and Miss Rachael Clifford from the University of Liverpool have both been awarded Research Fellowships, funded jointly by the charity and the Royal College…

It’s Remember a Charity in your Will week

Monday 9 September 2019

Today is the start of Remember a Charity in your Will week (9-15 September), where over 200 charities come together to raise awareness of the importance of leaving a gift to a charity in your Will – and…

New research suggests women in Scotland are not taking part in bowel cancer screening

Wednesday 4 September 2019

Today research published in the British Journal of Cancer suggests women in Scotland are risking their lives by not taking part in bowel screening tests, published in the British Journal of Cancer.

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