It’s Bowel Cancer Awareness Month and north east London patient Roger Shepherd has shared how a home testing kit saved his life.

Someone dies of bowel cancer every 30 minutes in the UK. It’s the second biggest cancer killer, but it shouldn’t be, because it’s treatable and curable. Nearly everyone diagnosed at the earliest stages will survive the disease.

We have recently hosted the first two awareness talks in our series on womb cancer as part of our ‘You Need to Know’ campaign.

Save the date! 26 April 2023 is our 2nd National Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist Day. Join us to show support and appreciation for our workforce, as we celebrate and raise awareness of the role and thank all our Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists for all the amazing work they do.

We are supporting Bowel Cancer UK this Bowel Cancer Awareness Month to ensure more people #KnowTheHigh5 symptoms of bowel cancer. So, what should you look out for?

We are continuing to promote the NHS national Quality of Life Survey, which patients receive around 18-months after their diagnosis. We are doing all we can to encourage people to complete the survey.

The Under 16 Cancer Patient Experience Survey informs how the NHS delivers cancer services with the aim to radically improve the outcomes for children and young people affected by cancer. 

Thanks to the tireless work of our GPs, nurses, clinicians and cancer teams across north east London, we are catching more cancers earlier than ever before.

Following World Cancer Day and as part of a national cancer awareness campaign, an NHS double-decker bus visited Newham to help raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer.