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National Bowel Cancer Screening Awareness Month - April 2018

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Bowel cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the UK, with most people being diagnosed over the age of 60. However it shouldn’t be. It’s treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early.
Bowel cancer screening can save lives. Screening aims to detect bowel cancer at an early stage, when treatment has the best chance of working. The test can also find polyps (non-cancerous growths), which might develop into cancer. Polyps can easily be removed, to lower the risk of bowel cancer.
Nearly everyone diagnosed at the earliest stage will survive bowel cancer however, this drops significantly as the disease develops. Taking part in bowel cancer screening is the best way to get diagnosed early and early diagnosis saves lives.
For more information surrounding Bowel Cancer please visit the NHS Choices and Bowel Cancer UK websites:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer-screening/
https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/about-bowel-cancer/screening/
Look out for the UHNM Bowel Cancer Screening team – they will be holding events in the hospital atriums: Royal Stoke Hospital on 11th April all day and 19th April morning; County Hospital on 18th April.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES 
For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who suffer from Bowel Cancer, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS

JOURNALS
  • Clinical colorectal cancer, Dallas, Tex. : CIG Media Group.  [Available as a Keele ejournal 2001 onwards & as an NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].
  • Colorectal Disease, Oxford, England : Blackwell Science  [Available as a Keele ejournal 1999 onwards].
  • BMC Cancer, London : BioMed Central [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2001 onwards].
  • Surgical Oncology, Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Pub. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards & NHS ejournal 2003 onwards].
  • International Journal of Colorectal Disease, Oxford, England : Blackwell Science  [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onward & as an NHS ejournal 2000 onwards with 1 year embargo].
  • European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Oxford : Elsevier Ltd. [Available in print 1994 - 2010. Also available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards & as an NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].
  • Cancer Medicine, Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Ltd. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2012 onwards].
  • Current medical literature Colorectal cancer, London : Current Medical Literature. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2003 - 2011& as an NHS ejournal 2010 - 2011].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • Carney, Kate E. ; Coyne, Peter E, “Bowel cancer screening”, Surgery (Oxford), 2017, 35(3), pp.132-139. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • C K Palmer ; M C Thomas ; C Von Wagner ; R Raine, “Reasons for non-uptake and subsequent participation in the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme: a qualitative study”, British Journal of Cancer, 2014, 110(7), p.1705. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Hallifax, R. ; Lacey, M. ; Bevis, P. ; Borley, N. R et al, “Slipping through the bowel cancer screening programme”, Colorectal Disease,  2012, 14(7), pp.844-847 [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Foss, Fiona A. ; West, Kevin P. ; Mcgregor, Angus H, “Pathology of polyps detected in the bowel cancer screening programme” Diagnostic Histopathology, 2011, 17(11), pp.495-504 . [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Sahnan, K ; Vaughan-Shaw, PG ; Wheeler, J.M.D, “Colorectal cancer yield in bowel cancer screening patients with a previous negative colonoscopy”, British Journal Of Surgery, 2013, 100 (Suppl 7), pp.122-122. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Han, Paul K.J. et al., “Effects of personalized colorectal cancer risk information on laypersons’ interest in colorectal cancer screening: The importance of individual differences”,  Patient Education and Counseling, 2015, 98(10), pp.1280-1286. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Niksic M, Rachet B, Duffy SW, Quaresma M, Møller H, Forbes LJ., ‘Is cancer survival associated with cancer symptom awareness and barriers to seeking medical help in England? An ecological study.’, British Journal of Cancer, 2016, 115 (7), pp.876-886. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Martini, A ; Morris, JN; Preen, D, “Impact of non-clinical community-based promotional campaigns on bowel cancer screening engagement: An integrative literature review”, Patient Education and Counseling, 2016; 99(10), pp. 1549-1557. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Koo, S ; Neilson,  LJ ; Von Wagner, C ; Rees, CJ , “The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Program: current perspectives on strategies for improvement”, Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2017, 10, pp.177-187. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE

CURRENT AWARENESS
Cancer: Health Library - http://www.netvibes.com/healthlibrary_northstaffs#Cancer
LERC - http://www.protopage.com/pgmclibrary#Cancer

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