Bowel Cancer UK
Beating bowel cancer together
About the Charity
We're bringing people together - patients and families, doctors and nurses, scientists and politicians to create a future where nobody dies of bowel cancer.
What we do
We're the UK's leading bowel cancer charity. We're determined to save lives and improve the quality of life of everyone affected by bowel cancer. Our vision is a future where nobody dies of the disease.
Providing support
We provide expert information and support for everyone affected by bowel cancer. Our online forum is a place for people to talk about their experiences, share their knowledge and support each other. Our website has lots of high quality information about bowel cancer and we publish a range of helpful booklets.
Campaigning for change
We campaign for early diagnosis and access to best treatment and care across the UK. We're leading change for younger bowel cancer patients, campaigning to improve survival and quality of life for those with advanced bowel cancer and working to improve early diagnosis by ensuring people are getting the right test at the right time. Read more about our campaigns.
Supporting and funding research
The major advances in saving lives from bowel cancer in the past 20 years have all come through research. Through strategic investment in targeted research, we will deliver improvements in bowel cancer survival in our lifetime. Learn more about our research.
Helping to educate
We run training, workshops and study days for healthcare professionals. We also have a dedicated team of volunteers who give free awareness talks to workplaces and community groups across the UK, spreading the word about symptoms, risk factors and bowel cancer screening.
Our strategy
In July 2023 we launched our five-year strategy, 'On a Mission'. This set out how we'll continue to work relentlessly towards our vision of a future where nobody dies from bowel cancer. Read our strategy in full to find out more about how we're going to ensure that more people are diagnosed at the earliest stages when the disease is easier to treat, and how we'll keep pushing for access to the best treatment and care, and provide support for patients and their friends and families.