By Sam Alexandra Rose Sam guest blogs regularly for Bowel Research UK, sharing her experiences of bowel cancer and Lynch syndrome. One afternoon in 2018, I found myself explaining...
Why did you get involved in the People and Research Together (PART) process? I took early retirement in August 2016 and for the first time in many years I had...
When were you first diagnosed with Lynch Syndrome? I was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2010 when I was 22. But it wasn’t until 2011 when I was having...
Bowel disease patients keep their conditions secret from family, friends and colleagues, finds new survey Bowel Research UK launches new taboo-busting campaign ‘Have You Got The Guts?’ A survey of...
One of the biggest challenges I faced trying to regain my fitness after emergency lifesaving stoma surgery in January 2021 was overcoming the fear of taking up exercise and regaining...
Welcome to another helping of insights from Bowel Research UK’s Love Your Gut Week nutritional research! I’m taking one last look at the survey results, serving up some data leftovers...
Was I supposed to be relieved that it wasn’t cancer or devastated that I had a lifelong condition? I wasn’t sure at all, but hearing the words, “we can see...