One of the aims of Bowel Cancer UK / Beating Bowel Cancer is that by 2050 no-one will die of bowel cancer. I hope that this can become a reality. At the moment in the UK 16,000 lives are lost to bowel cancer each year, and that means someone dies of this awful disease every 30 seconds making it the second highest cancer killer.
Bowel cancer is very treatable in over 90% of cases if caught at an early stage. However, at the moment only 15% of cases are diagnosed at that early stage 1. This is why raising awareness about bowel cancer is so important, and why it is so important that early detection rates are improved.
