Bacteria commonly found in our guts could contribute to the development of bowel cancer, according to a new study published in Nature today.

Mr Jones, lead investigator for a trial looking at giving personalised cancer vaccines to people with bowel cancer, tells us more about this new treatment.

With the support of BBC Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts we're launching our new campaign to help people know the red flag symptoms of bowel cancer. Read more.

Shocking new figures show people in the UK are less likely to be diagnosed with bowel cancer at an early stage, or to live longer than five years after their diagnosis, compared with other similar ...

NHS Scotland has released the country’s latest cancer waiting times results from April to June this year.

The number of people in England waiting longer than six weeks for tests that can help to diagnose bowel cancer has increased by nearly eight-fold compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to figures ...

Everyone at Bowel Cancer UK is deeply saddened that our patron Dame Deborah James has died. Our hearts go out to Deborah's family and her friends, including the many she made in the bowel cancer ...

A new study has found that increasing the sensitivity of the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) can help to identify more cases of bowel cancer, advanced polyps (non-cancerous growths) and Inflammatory ...

A new report out today shows bowel cancer costs the UK economy more than £1.7 billion (€1.9 billion) a year. The report, commissioned by Digestive Cancers Europe, calculated the cost of diagnosis and ...

The results of the Cancer Prevention Project 3 (CaPP3) trial, a study changing how we think about aspirin and cancer prevention for people with Lynch syndrome.

In 2013, NHS England began rolling out a screening test for bowel cancer for people aged 55, known as bowel scope screening. Bowel scope has been used in England alongside the home screening test, FIT ...

Aspirin taken daily for more than two years could reduce the risk of bowel cancer in people with Lynch syndrome, NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) has said in new draft ...