Can red apples reduce bowel cancer?
If you only eat one piece of fruit a day, make it an apple – that’s one of the messages being highlighted by Bowel Cancer Australia during Bowel Cancer Awareness Month this June and Red Apple Day on the 19th.
By mhaggan on 06/06/2013
DDS speaks out on bowel cancer
In its early stages it may present no symptoms at all – and even when symptoms appear, many people are reluctant to think about, test for or talk to their health professional about this deadly disease. But Discount Drug Stores is hoping to change the culture of silence, launching a national awareness clinic in June 2013 in more than 100 of its stores.
By mhaggan on 27/05/2013
My cancer, my voice
Bowel Cancer Australia is calling on health care workers to alert their bowel cancer patients to the ‘My cancer, my voice’ survey, which aims to better understand the specific experiences of people with bowel cancer and the effect the condition has on them.
By mhaggan on 23/04/2013
Screening key for bowel cancer
The tagline for Bowel Cancer Awareness Week 2012 (3-9 June) is ‘Screen today, screen for life,’ according to Julien Wiggins, chief executive officer of Bowel Cancer Australia.
By mhaggan on 31/05/2012
Bowel cancer tests promoted for FOBruary
Pharmacy is being urged to get behind FOBruary, a health promotion campaign aimed at reducing the number of Australian deaths caused by bowel cancer.
The promotion, launched by Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer – a Cabrini Health Initiative, calls on all Australians over the age of 50 to have an annual FOB (Faecal Occult Blood) Test during February to screen for the disease.
By mhaggan on 30/01/2012
