Experts discover infection that hits millions a year could be behind explosion in young bowel cancer cases
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Experts discover infection that hits millions a year could be behind explosion in young bowel cancer cases

Daily Mail  

A revolutionary vaccine that destroys specific strains of the bacteria E.coli could cut the risk of bowel, bladder and prostate cancers, according to scientists. The particularly harmful strains produce a DNA-damaging chemical called colibactin that has been linked to several types of cancer, including bowel cancer. A study has suggested higher cases of certain cancers in industrialised countries such as the UK could be linked to two particular types of E.coli, which can cause infections in the urinary tract and bloodstream Although overall cases of bladder cancer have actually decreased by 23 per cent in the UK between 2000-2002, more than 10,000 people are diagnosed with the disease every year, according to Cancer Research. Senior author Professor Jukka Corander, of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Oslo, and the University of Helsinki, said: 'We have been using large-scale genomics to track E.coli strains across multiple countries for the last five years, using data that goes back to the early 2000s.

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I'm a cancer expert - add one super-cheap item to your daily menu to slash bowel cancer risk
51 minutes ago

I'm a cancer expert - add one super-cheap item to your daily menu to slash bowel cancer risk

Daily Mail  

A top cancer surgeon has urged the public to add a portion of yoghurt to their daily diet to slash their risk of bowel cancer. Prof Stebbing's advice follows impressive research published last month that found those who ate at least two servings of yoghurt per week over the course of three decades were a fifth less likely to get …

Eating this staple food could reduce bowel cancer risk, study finds
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Eating this staple food could reduce bowel cancer risk, study finds

The Independent  

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Groundbreaking new test 90% accurate in finding patients at high risk of bowel cancer
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Groundbreaking new test 90% accurate in finding patients at high risk of bowel cancer

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists believe a groundbreaking new test may predict patients at high …

Explained: Why bowel cancer cases are on the rise in people under 50 years
2 months, 1 week ago

Explained: Why bowel cancer cases are on the rise in people under 50 years

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Nearly two million people are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year, making it the third most common cancer globally. In 2019, one study showed that in seven high income countries with historically high levels of bowel cancer, rates in the over-50s had begun to stabilise or even decline. Image courtesy: Pixabay/Representational More recently, a larger study which looked at bowel …

Doctors thought I had a UTI - it was stage 4 colon cancer and these were the hidden signs
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Doctors thought I had a UTI - it was stage 4 colon cancer and these were the hidden signs

Daily Mail  

A mum-of-three who claimed her GP mistook symptoms of bowel cancer for a urinary infection three times has urged others to be aware of the tell-tale signs of the disease. Now undertaking her fifth round of chemotherapy Ms Gardner-Lawson is calling for the bowel cancer screening minimum age to be dropped to 'at least' 30. Pictured, Zoe with husband Sam …

Bowel cancer, second deadliest, rising faster among 25-49 age group: Study in Lancet
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Bowel cancer, second deadliest, rising faster among 25-49 age group: Study in Lancet

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In several countries, cases of bowel cancer are rising among younger people in the 25-49 age group as compared to older adults who are traditionally more prone to developing cancers Bowel cancers are rising among younger persons aged 25-49 as compared to older adults, according to a new study published in Lancet. In their paper titled ‘Colorectal cancer incidence trends …

Mystery surrounds why bowel cancer in young people is rising so sharply in England
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Mystery surrounds why bowel cancer in young people is rising so sharply in England

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Michelle Mitchell, chief executive of Cancer Research UK, said: “This flagship study reveals that increasing …

New bowel cancer shock: Rates in England's under-50s among highest in the world - amid global explosion of the disease in young people
3 months, 2 weeks ago

New bowel cancer shock: Rates in England's under-50s among highest in the world - amid global explosion of the disease in young people

Daily Mail  

The number of under-50s with bowel cancer in England is growing at one of the fastest rates in the world, a major study warns. The study found bowel cancer rates in young people rose in 27 out of the 50 countries studied in the decade to 2017. Cancer Research UK stressed bowel cancer rates in younger adults are still low, …

Bowel cancer cases in young people rising sharply in England, study finds
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Bowel cancer cases in young people rising sharply in England, study finds

The Independent  

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Vaccine targeting common gut bacteria E.coli could help prevent cancer, scientists suggest
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Vaccine targeting common gut bacteria E.coli could help prevent cancer, scientists suggest

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Vaccines targeting common gut bacteria E.coli could reduce rates of colon …

Tackling specific E.coli strains could cut cancer risk, scientists suggest
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Tackling specific E.coli strains could cut cancer risk, scientists suggest

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Working to eradicate them “could offer huge public health benefits”, researchers said, including reducing the …

Scientists hope salmonella could hold the key to treating bowel cancer
4 months, 1 week ago

Scientists hope salmonella could hold the key to treating bowel cancer

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Recent advances in genetic modification to make bacteria safe caused a resurgence of scientific interest, …

I was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer at 25 - here's the unusual symptom that ALL 20-somethings should know about...as the disease soars in young people
4 months, 2 weeks ago

I was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer at 25 - here's the unusual symptom that ALL 20-somethings should know about...as the disease soars in young people

Daily Mail  

When Ellie Wilcock was hit by sharp pains on one side of her abdomen and sudden bouts of fatigue in 2022, she blamed it on a urinary tract infection. The then 25-year-old from Peterborough was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer – the most serious kind of the disease that means it's spread elsewhere in the body. Now in a …

What the alarming new bowel cancer theory means for Australia - as 'red flag' ingredient is blamed for surge in cases in the United States
6 months ago

What the alarming new bowel cancer theory means for Australia - as 'red flag' ingredient is blamed for surge in cases in the United States

Daily Mail  

A shocking new theory about the rise in bowel cancer cases has emerged in the US, but one of the suspected causes does not impact Aussies. Thankfully, high-fructose corn syrup is not used in Australia and the country's peak independent cancer authority Cancer Council Australia says sugar in the diet is not a known risk factor for cancer. The overconsumption …

World-leading expert reveals alarming reason for soaring young bowel cancers - a childhood bug that's in one of five people's guts
6 months, 2 weeks ago

World-leading expert reveals alarming reason for soaring young bowel cancers - a childhood bug that's in one of five people's guts

Daily Mail  

It's the phenomenon that's baffled doctors around the world: bowel cancer, usually a disease of the elderly, has soared by 50 per cent in 20, 30 and 40-somethings over the past 30 years. Some people also suffer with weight loss as a result of these symptoms Top cancer doctors Kimmie Ng, specialist in oncology and Director of the Young-Onset Colorectal …

Five ways to cut your risk of early bowel cancer, by DR EMILY LEEMING - a leading expert investigating this alarming trend in fit young people
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Five ways to cut your risk of early bowel cancer, by DR EMILY LEEMING - a leading expert investigating this alarming trend in fit young people

Daily Mail  

Why are so many young people developing bowel cancer? It’s not only bowel cancer – cases of ­cancer generally have been rising among the young: Cancer Research UK reports that between 1995 and 2019 rates of all cancer increased by 24 per cent among those aged 25-49, more than twice the rise in the over-75s – the group most at …

Experts warn UK E-coli outbreak is a 'serious public health concern' after first person infected by deadly bacteria dies
9 months ago

Experts warn UK E-coli outbreak is a 'serious public health concern' after first person infected by deadly bacteria dies

Daily Mail  

Health experts have warned the E.coli outbreak is a 'serious public health concern' as one person is confirmed to have died as a result of the deadly bacteria. At least 86 people have now been admitted to hospital as a result of an E. coli outbreak linked to lettuce, though cases are slowing, health officials have said 'Do not eat' …

Is THIS what's causing mystery rise in colon cancers among young people? New research points to bacteria in the gut linked to processed food and not eating enough fiber
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Is THIS what's causing mystery rise in colon cancers among young people? New research points to bacteria in the gut linked to processed food and not eating enough fiber

Daily Mail  

Team in China linked the rise to three bacteria groups found in the gut Scientists say they may be one step closer to finding the cause of surging rates Scientists say they may be one step closer to understanding what's driving a mystery rise in colon cancer in young people. There is a drop in 2020 because the Covid pandemic …

New bowel cancer film bids to raise awareness of killer disease
2 years, 7 months ago

New bowel cancer film bids to raise awareness of killer disease

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Two young women with personal stories of bowel cancer are …

More than 11,000 bowel cancer deaths could be prevented by simply reinviting people
2 years, 8 months ago

More than 11,000 bowel cancer deaths could be prevented by simply reinviting people

Daily Mail  

More than 11,000 lives could be saved by simply reinviting people who miss key bowel cancer test, research suggests. Mortality rates for bowel cancer in England are 30 per cent higher for men living in the most deprived areas compared with the least, and 15 per cent higher for females. Dame Deborah James - dubbed 'bowel babe' - shone a …

BBC podcaster Deborah James leaves fans worried as she shares snap from hospital bed
2 years, 11 months ago

BBC podcaster Deborah James leaves fans worried as she shares snap from hospital bed

Daily Mail  

BBC podcast host Deborah James, who has incurable bowel cancer, has revealed she had a 'rough few days' as she shared a snap from hospital over the weekend. The former deputy head teacher turned cancer campaigner, 40, from London, has been living with stage four bowel cancer since she was diagnosed in December 2016, and was told early on that …

Scientists develop new technology that helps shed light on 'earliest stages of colon cancer'
5 years, 5 months ago

Scientists develop new technology that helps shed light on 'earliest stages of colon cancer'

The Independent  

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'I was only passing blood': What's it like being under 30 with bowel cancer?
5 years, 9 months ago

'I was only passing blood': What's it like being under 30 with bowel cancer?

ABC  

Imagine being told in your late 20s you have a tumour in your bowel, you have months of chemotherapy ahead of you and now have to live with a bag hanging from a hole in your stomach. Key points: Ms Matkovic was diagnosed with bowel cancer in October last year She is sharing he cancer experience to encourage people to …

Preventing bowel cancer deaths
6 years, 3 months ago

Preventing bowel cancer deaths

ABC  

Norman Swan: 4,000 Australians die each year from bowel cancer, it's the second most deadly cancer, yet it is also, along with lung and cervical cancer, the most preventable, making many of these deaths all the more tragic. That was a theoretical as well as practical challenge taken up by Dr Dan Worthley, a gastroenterologist and bowel cancer researcher at …

These gut bacteria responsible for tumours
7 years, 1 month ago

These gut bacteria responsible for tumours

India TV News  

A study led by a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy found that bacteria play an important role in driving sporadic colon cancer. The study showed patients with an inherited form of colon cancer harbour two bacterial species that collaborate to encourage the development of the disease, and the same species have been found in …

A concoction of bacteria and veggies can help keep bowel cancer at bay
7 years, 2 months ago

A concoction of bacteria and veggies can help keep bowel cancer at bay

India TV News  

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide, after lung and prostate cancer. Thus, researchers from the National University of Singapore have developed a cocktail of bacteria and cruciferous vegetables that can potentially turn into a targeting system that seeks out and kills colorectal cancer cells. This mixture killed more than 95 percent of colorectal cancer cells in a …

Bowel cancer one of Australia's biggest killers, but people aren't taking free test
7 years, 8 months ago

Bowel cancer one of Australia's biggest killers, but people aren't taking free test

ABC  

It is the second-most common cancer in Australia, but health authorities are frustrated more people aren't participating in screening for bowel cancer. Common causes of bowel cancer: Inherited genetic risk, family history Being overweight or obese High alcohol consumption Smoking Polyps, or growths, on bowel High red meat consumption, particularly processed The Cancer Council Victoria is calling on people to …

E.Coli vaccine could become a reality and could even help prevent food poisoning
10 years, 4 months ago

E.Coli vaccine could become a reality and could even help prevent food poisoning

Daily Mail  

A global vaccine to prevent the leading cause of food poisoning and diarrhoea is one step closer, scientists claim A global vaccine to prevent the leading cause of diarrhoea and food poisoning is one step closer, researchers claim. E.coli causes 400,000 deaths and 400 million cases of diarrhoea each year in low and middle-income countries, as well as misery to …

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