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People don’t like to talk about gut and bowel conditions, as the symptoms can be uniquely embarrassing. We need to get past this embarrassment because 42,000 in the UK are diagnosed with bowel cancer every year, with 16,000 dying from this disease. There are also 300,000 people living in the UK with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which is a chronic and often life limiting condition.

This is important to me personally as a friend of mine recently died from bowel cancer and because I am one of those 300,000 people living with IBD.

Bowel Research UK is a national medical research charity dedicated to funding new treatments and potential cures for bowel cancer, inflammatory bowel disease and other bowel disorders. The charity’s goal is to save lives while also enabling people living with chronic bowel conditions to enjoy a much better quality of life.

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