Supermarket giant Aldi has made an important announcement to all of its customers. The retailer has followed in the footsteps of M&S and is making a crucial change that could potentially save hundreds, if not thousands of lives.
Aldi has announced that it is to add signs and symptoms of bowel cancer to all its packs of own brand toilet roll in response to Bowel Cancer UK’s #GetOnARoll campaign. Bowel cancer is the UK’s fourth most common cancer and the second biggest cancer killer.
Yet almost half of adults around the UK could not name a single symptom of bowel cancer in a recent survey. Red flag symptoms include changes in bowel habit and bleeding from your bottom and/or blood in your poo, which can all be noticed while people are on the toilet. Knowing the symptoms to look out for, and acting on them, can lead to bowel cancer being diagnosed at an earlier stage when it is easier to treat and even cure.
