Every half hour, someone dies of bowel cancer – our second-biggest cancer killer after lung tumours. And although it mainly affects the over-50s, more than 2,600 younger people are diagnosed every year.
Yet is treatable and curable, especially when caught early. So in Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, we’re joining forces with charity Bowel Cancer UK to give more people a chance of survival. We visited specialist cancer centre The Christie in Manchester to witness the astonishing results of new trials to treat the disease – and the hope they give to families.
Dad Paul Farrell was just 42 when his world collapsed. Just weeks before Christmas, he discovered he had stage three bowel cancer.
