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Bowel Cancer Australia

Key Facts:

June is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month – Bowel Cancer Australia’s signature event to raise awareness of Australia’s second deadliest cancer and funds for the leading community-funded charity dedicated to championing what matters most to people impacted by bowel cancer and empowering everyone affected to live their best life 

Bowel Cancer IS The Second Deadliest Cancer

1 Month to Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

 

The Facts

• 14,904 Australians are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year.
• 1884 people under age 50 are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year (11.7%).
• Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer.
• Bowel Cancer is 99% treatable if detected in the earliest stage.
• 5,372 lives lost to bowel cancer each year.
• 163,000+ Australians living with or beyond bowel cancer.
• 53.2% of people diagnosed with bowel cancer are men and 46.8% of people diagnosed with bowel cancer are women.
• Bowel cancer is the deadliest cancer for people aged 25-54.
• Australia now has the highest rates of early-onset (under age 50) bowel cancer in the world.
• You are never too young for bowel cancer. Australian research found younger people may spend between 3 months and 5 years seeing multiple doctors before diagnosis.
• The risk of diagnosis before the age of 40 has more than doubled since the year 2000. 
• Early-onset bowel cancer strikes in the most active years of life, causing interruptions in education, work, and family building, as well as significant psychosocial challenges and long term financial hardship.

 

Symptoms

The signs and symptoms of bowel cancer can include:

Blood in your poo;

Obvious change in your bowel habit

Weight loss you can’t explain

Extreme tiredness for no reason

Lump or swelling in your abdomen

 

 

About us:

About Bowel Cancer Australia

Bowel Cancer Australia is the leading national charity dedicated to championing what matters most to people impacted by bowel cancer and empowering everyone affected to live their best life.

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