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Bowel cancer

June 2024

  • Keir Starmer with Nathaniel Dye

    Speaker at Labour manifesto launch is cancer-free after terminal diagnosis

  • Lyndsey Ainscough with her family, husband Christian, daughter Perry and sons Alfie (right) and Spencer.

    Woman says Deborah James’s bowel cancer campaigning helped save her life

  • Elliot Pfebve in a hospital chair is treated by Hayley Rolfe in a blue NHS uniform

    ‘Off the charts’: the key breakthroughs giving new hope in treating cancer

  • A pembrolizumab monoclonal antibody drug protein

    Drug that ‘melts away’ tumours hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for some bowel cancer patients

May 2024

  • Woman looking through microscope

    Some say it’s ‘genetic discrimination’, but insurance companies are fighting for access to these test results

  • Ride side of woman's face looking at sample in microscope

    Adapted NHS bowel cancer test developed for blind and partly sighted people

April 2024

  • Jonathan Morris

    A ‘heathenish liquor’? A cure for cancer? The history of coffee is full of surprises

    Jonathan Morris
    A new study suggests coffee could prevent bowel cancer recurring – but claims for its healing properties have abounded since the 15th century, says historian Jonathan Morris

March 2024

  • Closeup of woman's hands holding a cup of coffee in an outdoor with sunlight falling across the table

    Coffee drinkers have much lower risk of bowel cancer recurrence, study finds

    Exclusive: Scientists say people with disease who drink two to four cups a day are less likely to see it return
  • A PET scanner

    UK researchers find way of diagnosing bowel cancer without biopsies

    PET scans can examine entire bowel before and during treatment, avoiding risks associated with taking tissue samples
  • A woman looking through a microscope

    Science Weekly
    What’s behind the rapid rise of cancer in the under-50s? – podcast

    Ian Sample speaks to health editor Andrew Gregory about the worrying global rise in cancers in under-50s, and hears from Yin Cao, an associate professor in surgery and medicine at Washington University in St Louis, who is part of a team conducting a huge study into why young people are developing bowel cancer at record rates

February 2024

  • A colonoscope, used for bowel cancer screening, in the endoscopy room at Charing Cross hospital in Hammersmith, London.

    ‘Gamechanging’ cancer screening offered to people with Lynch syndrome in England

  • Simon Jenkins

    Let King Charles’s illness finally change how we speak about cancer: it’s not about ‘winning’ or ‘losing’ a ‘war’

    Simon Jenkins

January 2024

  • A patient is prepared for bowel cancer screening at a hospital in London

    UK bowel cancer death rates forecast to rise by third among under-50s

  • Woman Receiving Radiation Therapy Treatments for Breast Cancer

    US cancer death rates down but younger Americans see rise in certain cancers

October 2023

  • A woman looking through a microscope in a laboratory setting

    Australian bowel cancer screening age should drop from 50 to 45, medical research authority says

    Research council endorses lowering screening age in clinical practise guidelines, a position advocated by Bowel Cancer Australia for years

September 2023

  • An NHS worker examines the results of a lung scan

    The Guardian view on preventable cancers: we need to avoid illness as well as cure it

    Editorial: Public health has been neglected for too long, and new research on the rise of lifestyle-linked cancers proves it
  • A person holding a cigarette and a glass of wine

    184,000 in UK to get preventable cancer diagnosis this year, study finds

    Exclusive: Calls for crackdown on smoking, drinking and poor diet as study reveals £78bn cancer cost
  • Christopher Fowler.

    ‘Healthy or downright weird?’: how I helped publish my husband Christopher Fowler’s posthumous book

    My author spouse never let me read anything he wrote before it was finished. But after his death from cancer, I found myself choosing funeral flowers at the same time as covers for his memoir, Word Monkey

August 2023

  • Christina Pagel

    More cancer screenings sounds like good news. But can the NHS cope with them?

    Christina Pagel
  • Colonoscope used for bowel cancer screening in the endoscopy room at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith.

    Nice calls for routine use of at-home faeces tests for bowel cancer screening

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