As many of you will know I have spent the last few years doing what I can to raise awareness for bowel cancer and IBD's. But whilst talking to someone at a recent charity event I realised I've referred to BBC a lot but have never really highlighted all the hard work that they do. Time to fix that....
As April is Bowel Cancer awareness month it seems appropriate :)
Their vision is a world where bowel cancer is beaten. Beating Bowel Cancer is the support and campaigning charity for everyone affected by bowel cancer.
They bring people with bowel cancer together to share experiences and create a powerful voice for change.
• promoting early diagnosis of bowel cancer
• campaigning for the highest quality treatment and care for bowel cancer patients
• raising money to fund our vital work
Each year Beating Bowel Cancer
- distributes over 120,000 information booklets to help patients and their families understand more about bowel cancer and to support them in making vital decisions
- Their nurse helpline receives over 3,300 contacts from people needing support
- 780,000 people visit the Beating Bowel Cancer website to find out about symptoms and get vital information about the condition
Key facts and statistics about bowel cancer
• Every half an hour someone dies of the disease
• Each year around 16,000 people die of bowel cancer
• Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK
• Around 110 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer every day, that’s someone every 15 minutes
• Bowel cancer affects both men and women
• Your lifetime risk of developing bowel cancer is 1 in 16.
Reading the statistics above hopefully now you can see why I never feel like I can do enough.
My hope is my humble ramblings create a small ripple of awareness which may in turn create someone else to create a ripple.
I hope they do......so Ill keep rambling ;)
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