On Thursday 26 June 2025, Sir John Burn announced the results of the Cancer Prevention Project 3 (CaPP3) trial, a landmark study changing how we think about aspirin and cancer prevention for people ...

We’re campaigning to improve the diagnosis and care of people with Lynch syndrome. As part of this work, we bought together academics, clinicians, and policymakers for a roundtable discussion to make ...

If the hospital tests show cancer cells in your colon or rectum, you will need more tests to stage the cancer. This means finding out the size of the cancer, where it is and whether it has spread to ...

Provided you raise £100, we’ll send you a Bowel Cancer UK top free of charge a month before your event. Or, to ensure more of your fundraising goes towards our work, you can choose to make a donation ...

We’re the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity. We’re determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer.

Caroline and I found each other at university in October 1996 and have been together ever since. We got married in October 2007. On 31st March 2009 our first child, our beautiful daughter, was born.

Knowing the symptoms is important to help spot bowel cancer early. The earlier that it’s found, the more treatable it’s likely to be. Bowel cancer is cancer that begins in the large bowel, which is ...

Bowel cancer is more common in people over the age of 50, but it can affect anyone of any age. If you’re below the screening age and are worried you may have symptoms of bowel cancer, go to see your ...

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 ...

Aspirin taken daily for more than two years could reduce the risk of bowel cancer in people with Lynch syndrome, NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) has said in new draft ...

Read real life storiesHayley Hayley's husband Stuart, father of five, was diagnosed with palliative bowel cancer aged 37 in October 2020. Hayley talks about how much their lives have changed since ...

In 2013, NHS England began rolling out a screening test for bowel cancer for people aged 55, known as bowel scope screening. Bowel scope has been used in England alongside the home screening test, FIT ...