Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK - one in 19 women and one in 14 men will be diagnosed with it at some point. Some cancers are hard to spot until a very late stage - pancreatic cancer and lung cancer are good examples. Sadly, the later your cancer is diagnosed, the worse the outcome is likely to be.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/news-and-features/tips-to-beat-bowel-cancer