Bowel cancer awareness month

April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) which provides an  annual opportunity to raise awareness of bowel cancer.

This year Beating Bowel Cancer and Bowel Cancer UK have merged to form the UK’s leading bowel cancer charity, with a mission to ensure that by 2050 no-one will die of bowel cancer.

Bowel cancer is the UK’s second biggest cancer killer however it shouldn’t be because it is treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early. Nearly everyone diagnosed at the earliest stage will survive bowel cancer but this drops significantly as the disease develops.

Early diagnosis really does save lives, that’s why during April the cancer charity is raising awareness of bowel cancer symptoms.