The organisation Beating Bowel Cancer recently held a parliamentary reception to raise awareness of the disease and launch its latest policy document, ‘Equality & Excellence for Bowel Cancer’. The document sets out a number of key recommendations to improve the outcomes for bowel cancer.
Each year almost 40,000 men and women in the UK are diagnosed with the disease and approximately 16,250 people will die from it. This equates to almost 60 bowel cancer diagnoses and 25 deaths in each parliamentary constituency. Yet in over 90% of cases, bowel cancer can be beaten if patients are diagnosed early and given prompt and appropriate treatment.
Each year almost 40,000 men and women in the UK are diagnosed with the disease and approximately 16,250 people will die from it. This equates to almost 60 bowel cancer diagnoses and 25 deaths in each parliamentary constituency. Yet in over 90% of cases, bowel cancer can be beaten if patients are diagnosed early and given prompt and appropriate treatment.
Although outcomes for patients in England have improved significantly, a bowel cancer diagnosis is still too often a death sentence as many people are diagnosed too late. Screening uptake rates in Lewisham Deptford have been improving, but we are still below the national average. Improving participation in screening could save up to 3,837 lives in the area by 2015.
For more information on the prevention, symptoms and treatment of bowel cancer, visit Beating Bowel Cancer’s website: www.beatingbowelcancer.org.uk
For more information on the prevention, symptoms and treatment of bowel cancer, visit Beating Bowel Cancer’s website: www.beatingbowelcancer.org.uk
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