Dame Deborah spent the last weeks of her life raising awareness about bowel cancer
Bowel cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the UK . Yet - if caught early - it’s one of the most treatable. Which is why early detection is so important.
While over nine out of ten new cases are diagnosed in people over the age of 50, it can affect anyone of any age, as Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts - aged just 42 - proves. OK! spoke to Genevieve Edwards, Chief Executive of Bowel Cancer UK, who says, “Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK.
“But the number of people dying of bowel cancer has been falling since the 1970s. This may be due to earlier diagnosis and better treatment.”1.) Bleeding from your bottom and/or blood in your poo
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