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A clinical consensus on improving the colonoscopic screening and surveillance of people with Lynch syndrome in England

Bowel Cancer UK is calling on the national Bowel Cancer Screening Programme to take responsibility for screening people with Lynch syndrome for bowel cancer in England.Currently the screening of people with Lynch syndrome is managed by local... Read more

29 Nov 2017

Community Bowel Screening Volunteers (CBSV) Project: Outcomes and Impact of the Pilot Phase

Beating Bowel Cancer has released the Community Bowel Screening Volunteers Project Outcomes Report.This report outlines the impact of the model where Beating Bowel Cancer train volunteers to go in to GP practices to phone people who have recently... Read more

23 Nov 2017

ACPN Nurses' Resource Development Day

On 10 November, the Association of Coloproctology Nurses’ group ran their first Resource Development Day at the Salts Academy in Birmingham. The aims of this day were: To explore aspects of colorectal nursing practice for which there is currently... Read more

20 Nov 2017

RCS Library Relaunches the Colorectal Surgery Update

In October 2017, the RCS Library relaunched the Colorectal Surgery Update. This replaces the Current Awareness Bulletin that ran from 2012-2016.The Update is a concise email summary of the latest clinical evidence, providing surgeons with an easy... Read more

15 Nov 2017

Clinical Trial - Raising awareness of Alicaforsen to treat pouchitis

This trial is open to pouchitis patients currently in flare that have failed to respond to one or more courses of antibiotics, or are contra-indicated to antibiotics.Atlantic Healthcare enrols 110th patient to its Phase 3 trial of alicaforsen to... Read more

31 Oct 2017