EVERY year more than 36,500 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer, one of the most common cancers in the country.
As this month is bowel cancer awareness month, Warrington’s consultant colectoral surgeon Mr Barry Taylor wants to raise awareness of a disease that brings almost 100 new patients a day.
“In an ordinary year we see between 200 and 250 new bowel cancer patients,” he said.It appears to be becoming more common in a way that other cancers, like stomach cancer, are not.”
The disease typically affects people aged 60 and over, but last month Mr Taylor’s surgeons team at Warrington Hospital operated on a 32-year-old woman.
Tell-tale signs of the disease include rectal bleeding, changes in your bowel habit, extreme tiredness and a pain or lump in your abdomen.
Diagnostic checks include X-ray, colonoscopy, endoscopy and MRI scans.
At Spire Cheshire Hospital a bowel cancer screening service is available.
For more information or to make an appointment call 215067.
For more information on bowel cancer visit bowelcanceruk.org.uk or call the bowel cancer advisory service on 0800 840 3540.
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