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Be a cancer detective

Lynn Faulds Wood Journalist and cancer campaigner

Patients with bowel cancer would benefit from earlier nursing interventions, writes Lynn Faulds Wood

Bowel cancer is the second most common cancer in the UK after lung cancer, with around 40,000 people developing it every year. Around 80 per cent of those diagnosed with the disease are aged 60 and over, with men and women affected equally.

Nursing Standard. 26, 32, 26-27. doi: 10.7748/ns2012.04.26.32.26.p8055

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11 April 2012 / Vol 26 issue 32

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