Carolyn Robertsons story on how Bowel Screening Wales saved her life.

06/07/2010

Carolyn Robertson, a lovely lady from Cardiff, is supporting and promoting the charity with various fundraising events. Carolyn has beaten Bowel Cancer thanks to the Welsh Assembly/NHS screening initiative.  Read her full story on her website: www.cardsbycaro.com

Carolyn produces lovely designed cards which can be purhased via her website above.  She is donating 20% of her profits on the sale of the cards to the charity  Please have a look at her range and help us beat bowel cancer.

 

Mr Duke walks the coastline of Britain for Bowel Cancer Wales.

14/03/2010

David Edwards aged 26 from Cilfynydd Pontypridd  is walking the coastline of Britain for Bowel Cancer Wales.He started on 14/3/ 2010 and is walking around 3,000 miles clockwise from Cardiff.He is doing it  to raise awareness of the disease after his family had been struck with the illness.It is a tremendous challenge to undertake and at time of writing he is currently in Morecambe Lancashire.He has been interviewed and been followed by Radio Cymru along the way and can be followed on facebook if registered for daily blogs of his whereabouts and how he is getting along on the heading Mr Duke walks the coastline of Britain for Bowel Cancer Wales.

 

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Energetic pair get their running shoes on in memory of partners late mum.

03/03/2010
Two sisters in law are getting set to tear up the streets of Pontypridd as they run 15k in memory of their partners mum.Gemma Bosher -Jarvis and Michele David will don their running shoes on March 20th to raise money and awareness for the Pontypridd based charity."Having lost a close family member to this awfull disease,I want the run to raise local awareness that early screening can catch it in its early stages,prolonging life and improving the survival rate." Gemma said.

The Doctor's Dilemma

02/09/2008

"What is very hard for many doctors to do is to have to explain to patients that an appropriate drug treatment for them is too expensive to prescribe.

"The health watchdog NICE is regularly refusing new therapies to treat cancer and uses a cut-off of £28,000 a year as a basis of evaluation. It would be better if it evaluated medicines on the basis of how long they prolong a person's life..."

Taken from a Daily Express interview with Oncologist Dr Justin Stebbings, senior lecturer at Imperial College, London.

Lower age for bowel cancer screening - News Article

05/03/2007

Nick Phillips, who is in the process of setting up a new charity - Bowel Cancer Wales - wants to raise awareness about the disease, in a bid to reduce the number of people developing it.

Interviewed by

Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail

Bowel Cancer Discovery by Scientists in Wales

15/02/2007
When healthy parents both carry a defective gene called MYH, their children are at very high risk of coming down with bowel cancer, researchers at the University of Wales College of Medicine say in an article in this tomorrow’s eminent ‘ The Lancet’ journal for the medical profession.

Major advance in bowel cancer

14/02/2007
An important advance in understanding bowel cancer has been made by researchers at the University of Bristol, UK.