Tag: bowel cancer
Read why more people aged 50-74 should do the cancer screening test like Karen.
Bowel cancer is one of the most preventable cancers. Learn how to reduce your risk today.
Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in Australia. Here are five facts you need to know.
This year, do you think it would be more likely for a loved one of yours to die in a car accident or from bowel cancer? If you answered ‘car accident’ then you’ll be shocked to know that in Australia there are about five times more deaths from bowel cancer than road fatalities every year[1]! […]
We already know that wholegrains are wholesome and high in fibre but new evidence1 published by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) shows that eating wholegrains every day significantly reduces your risk of bowel cancer (also known as colorectal cancer). The new report analysed 99 studies from […]
Australia has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world. The lifetime risk of developing bowel cancer before the age of 75 is around one in 19 for men and one in 28 for women. This makes bowel – or colorectal – cancer the third most common cancer in Australia and the […]
Bowel cancer is one of those topics we don’t like to talk about but it’s something we shouldn’t ignore. In Australia 16,682 people will be diagnosed with bowel (or colorectal) cancer this year. It’s now the second most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women. 90% of bowel cancer cases occur in people over 50 […]
We discuss tips and strategies on how you can cope with returning to work after being bowel cancer treatment.