# Bowel Cancer UK

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## TL;DR

The UK's bowel cancer charity: information and an email service answered by colorectal nurses, the Never Too Young campaign for younger patients, and the policy work that pushes the NHS on screening, Lynch syndrome testing and emergency diagnosis.

## Summary

Bowel Cancer UK (registered charity 1071038 in England and Wales and SC040914 in Scotland, a company limited by guarantee number 3409832) describes itself as the UK's leading bowel cancer charity. It runs Ask the Nurse, a free email service answered by colorectal nurses within two working days for non-urgent enquiries, and publishes patient information covering symptoms, risk factors, screening in each of the four nations, diagnosis, treatment, prehabilitation, clinical trials, advanced disease, living with and beyond bowel cancer and end of life care, alongside an online community, a podcast and the National Colorectal Cancer Nurses Network.

Its campaigning arm publishes the reports the NHS is measured against. Never Too Young, launched in 2013, is the campaign for younger patients: its 2020 report, drawn from a survey of over a thousand young people with bowel cancer, found that half did not know they could develop the disease before their diagnosis, that four in ten had to visit their GP three or more times before referral, that nearly half of those diagnosed after 2017 had not been offered Lynch syndrome testing, that one in five had no access to a clinical nurse specialist and that 40 percent were not satisfied with the information they were given about fertility and family planning. In 2026 the charity published Behind the emergency, paired clinician and patient reports on bowel cancer diagnosed in accident and emergency, and in 2024 Finding the missing 95 percent, on Lynch syndrome services.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-24
- Tags: charity; uk; colorectal
- City: London, GB
- Type: consortium
- Website: https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/

## Sources

- Bowel Cancer UK: https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/
- Ask the Nurse: https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/how-we-can-help/ask-the-nurse/
- Never Too Young: https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/campaigning/never-too-young/
- Screening in the four nations: https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/about-bowel-cancer/screening/
- Policy reports: https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/campaigning/policy-reports-and-consultations/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [Early-onset colorectal cancer (under 50)](https://onco.cc/cancers/early-onset-colorectal/), [Rectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/rectal-cancer/)
- fronts: [Early Detection & Screening](https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/)
- technologies: [Colorectal cancer screening (colonoscopy, FIT, stool DNA, blood)](https://onco.cc/technologies/colorectal-screening/)
- institutions: [Macmillan Cancer Support](https://onco.cc/institutions/macmillan-cancer-support/)
- terms: [Faecal immunochemical test (FIT)](https://onco.cc/terms/fit-test/), [Lynch syndrome](https://onco.cc/terms/lynch-syndrome/)
- trials: [TRACC](https://onco.cc/trials/tracc/)

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