“Our research led from Newcastle University and South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust is world-leading.
“COLO-DETECT is part of our broader COLOSPEED research, which has recruited more than 4,000 patients in addition to the 2,000 in COLO-DETECT, building one of the largest bowel cancer research platforms in the world.”
Symptoms of bowel cancer
Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK but the second deadliest, causing around 16,800 deaths every year, according to Cancer Research UK.
Most commonly it causes symptoms that affect how you go to the toilet.
