Bowel & Cancer Research
Bowel cancer takes lives, and other bowel diseases can cause misery and devastate people’s quality of life. Colitis and Crohn’s disease can cause such pain that they can only be managed with morphine-based drugs which have to be administered in hospital.
Despite the serious impact of bowel disease, it receives about half the funding that its impact merits, perhaps because bottoms, bowels and their function are one of the very last taboos.
Bowel & Cancer Research is a registered UK charity. They fund the best research around the UK to investigate new ideas and we support our future experts through a PhD studentship programme. They also involve patients, their loved ones and carers in their own and their partners’ research.
Among other achievements, their support has delivered the first National Centre dedicated to bowel research, progressed our understanding of how bowel cancer develops and is helping us to understand and manage pain for people living with chronic inflammatory bowel disease.
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