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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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Obesity 'causes more cases of some cancers than smoking'

Wednesday 3 July 2019

New figures released today by Cancer Research UK shows the number of people who are obese now outnumber people who smoke two to one in the UK

Health Information Week

Monday 1 July 2019

This week is Health Information Week (1 – 7 July), which aims to promote the importance of high quality information for patients and the public, led by the NHS Knowledge for Healthcare Framework.

CEO Deborah Alsina MBE to leave Bowel Cancer UK

Thursday 20 June 2019

Our long standing Chief Executive, Deborah Alsina MBE, has announced she will be leaving the charity in August. Deborah is taking up the role of Chief Executive of Independent Age.

Join us for Walk Together to stop people dying of bowel cancer

Tuesday 18 June 2019

Registrations are now open for our annual Walk Together events this September.

Knowing the symptoms of bowel cancer saves lives

Tuesday 18 June 2019

Knowing the symptoms of bowel cancer saves lives

Boult Wade Tennant announce us as charity partner

Monday 17 June 2019

We’re delighted to be announced as one of Boult Wade Tennant’s charity partners for 2019.

We hand in Lynch syndrome petition to UK governments

Tuesday 11 June 2019

This week we hand in our Time to Test petition to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland governments signed by nearly 10,000 people. Together with our campaign supporters and patients we are calling on…

NHS publishes long awaited Interim People Plan

Monday 3 June 2019

Today, NHS Improvement’s Chair, Baroness Dido Harding, published the interim People Plan which sets out their immediate vision for the NHS workforce in 2019/2020 to support delivery of the NHS Long Term…

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