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New centre aims to cut deaths from bowel cancer

A NEW bowel cancer screening centre which aims to cut deaths from the disease has been opened.

A NEW bowel cancer screening centre which aims to cut deaths from the disease has been opened.Called the Peterborough and Hinchingbrooke bowel cancer screening centre, it has been given the go-ahead by the NHS Cancer Screening Programme and will be based in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

Consultant colorectal surgeon and Hinchingbrooke Clinical Lead of the Peterborough and Hinchingbrooke bowel cancer screening centre Bassam Bekdash said: “We are delighted to have been given the go-ahead as a bowel cancer screening centre. About one in 20 people will develop bowel cancer during their lifetime – and with early treatment deaths from bowel cancer can be reduced by 16 per cent, which makes screening programmes such as this so important.”

Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer, but the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the UK.

Bowel cancer screening aims to detect bowel cancer at an early stage in people who have no symptoms, when treatment is likely to be at its most effective.


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