BEATING BOWEL CANCERBeating Bowel Cancer (formerly known as The Crocus Trust) is a UK registered
charity set up to help save thousands of lives from bowel cancer, the second
biggest cancer killer. Fifty per cent more people die of bowel cancer than
breast cancer. The charity was co-founded by former BBC Watchdog presenter Lynn
Faulds-Wood, who discovered that she had advanced bowel cancer at 41. There are other charities raising funds to find cures for bowel cancer.
Beating Bowel Cancer has been set up to concentrate on the patient's journey,
on the third of a million people who will develop or be diagnosed with bowel
cancer over the next ten years, or longer, before cures can be found. At
present, most of these people will die. Beating Bowel Cancer aims to save many
of those lives by helping to come up with better practice for every stage of
the patient's journey. So far, we have put together a new guide to symptoms, the first
research-based guide in the world, and it is available free from the Department
of Health on
 0800 555 777. Now we are working on setting up a national training scheme for doctors and
nurses who use sophisticated diagnostic equipment. Seven diagnostic training
centres of excellence will start up around the country later this year and we
hope to open diagnostic clinics in many local hospitals in the near future.
Beating Bowel Cancer
P.O. Box 360
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW1 1UN 020-8892 5256
 020-8744 2266
 info@beatingbowelcancer.org
 http://www.bowelcancer.org | 
