Bowel cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the UK
Every 15 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with bowel cancer
More than 41,000 are diagnosed each year
More than 2,540 people under 50 are diagnosed in the UK each year
One in 14 men and one in 19 women will be diagnosed in their lifetime
Around 290,000 people living in the UK today have been diagnosed with the disease
15,900 people lose their life to bowel cancer each year – that’s 44 people each day
Every 30 minutes, someone in the UK dies from the disease
More than nine out of 10 people diagnosed with stage 1 bowel cancer survive five years or more
For stage 2 bowel cancer that figure is eight in 10
For stage 3 six out of 10
And for stage 4 less than one in 10 people survive five years or more
Source: Bowel Cancer UK


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