Nearly a third of people living in Manchester can’t name a single symptom of a potentially fatal illness, new analysis has found.
A new survey by Bowel Cancer UK, has revealed that nearly three in 10 (29 per cent) of people can’t name a single symptom of bowel cancer. The disease is the UK’s second biggest cancer killer, but nearly three quarters of people - some 71 per cent - living in the city are not aware of this fact.
One of the key ‘red flag’ bowel cancer symptoms is blood in your poo but only around four in 10 people (41 per cent) living in Manchester were able to name it. The other four main symptoms, experienced by many who go on to be diagnosed with the disease, have an alarmingly low rate of awareness based on those people could name, according to the charity.
