Chris Huhne

Local MP joins campaign to highlight bowel cancer

Bowel cancer is a common disease which kills almost half the people who develop it. It is shrouded in social taboo and few people talk about it – yet it is preventable and curable. Most people who develop bowel cancer should survive, yet patients in the UK are among the slowest in Europe at being diagnosed with bowel cancer*.

Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne is backing Lynn’s Bowel Cancer Campaign – starting with Bowel Cancer Faster Diagnosis Week starting June 28 2010 – which encourages everyone to get to know the key symptoms and to get involved in the NHS screening programme for bowel cancer.

Commenting, Chris Huhne MP said:

“It is shocking that while bowel cancer is extremely treatable, the UK are so slow at getting it diagnosed and treated – often due to embarrassment and worry.

“The Cut-Out-And-Keep Guide to the symptoms and poster showing how easy it is to take the NHS screening test have been created by Lynn’s Campaign are excellent tools in dispelling the myths surrounding this terrible illness, and I am pleased to add my support by displaying them in my constituency.

“If you are aged 60-69 and receive a letter from the NHS about screening, I urge you to make an appointment immediately – it could save your life.”

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Note to Eds

The Campaign is run by Lynn Faulds Wood, the former BBC Watchdog presenter who survived advance bowel cancer after a year’s medical delay.  

For more information, contact:

Lynn’s Bowel Cancer Campaign
Email: lynn@bowelcancer.tv