Bowel Cancer Awareness Campaign Launched | TopNews New ...

As per reports, it has got revealed that England Government has launched a campaign, Be Clear on Cancer, to raise awareness on bowel cancer. It is the first time that the government has launched a campaign of bowel cancer.

Bowel cancer is one of the leading causes of deaths in the country. As per official data, 33,000 people get diagnosed with bowel cancer in the country and 13,000 out of them have to lose their life. The main motive to launch this campaign is to increase the awareness among people about bowel cancer.

It generally occurs among people who are above 55 years and has some peculiar symptoms through which one could detect the cancer. Doctors said that if blood comes out in their stools or passes loose stools for more than three weeks then one should immediately contact their doctors.

The cancer is curable in majority of the cases but only if it gets detected early. Early detection leads to better survival chances and if one gets late then there are only 6% survival chances. If awareness is increased in this regard then it is expected that there would fewer bowel cancer cases and less deaths due to it.

This is the reason that the government has initiated and launched a campaign. Professor Sir Mike Richards, who is the Government's National Clinical Director for Cancer, said that they are quite positive that people would get enlightened about bowel cancer and there would more referrals in the NHS for bowel cancer test.

For this, they have already sent a letter to the NHS that they should be ready to tackle increased rush of people who would come for colonoscopies, a traditional way to test bowel cancer. As per Richards, the NHS could see an extra 100 colonoscopies.

Source: http://topnews.net.nz/content/221052-bowel-cancer-awareness-campaign-launched

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