DECEMBEARD – Bowel Cancer Awareness Month 1st - 31st December 2021

 Bowel cancer is a general term for cancer that begins in the large bowel. Depending on where the cancer starts, bowel cancer can sometimes be called colon or rectal cancer.

Bowel cancer is one of the most common types of cancer diagnosed in the UK and most people diagnosed with it are over the age of 60. However, this disease is treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early.

Bowel Cancer UK’s annual sponsored beard grow is back this December, as a means of raising awareness and money to support our vital research and lifesaving work to stop bowel cancer.

For more information surrounding the importance of bowel screening and the treatment of bowel cancer please visit the Bowel Cancer UK and NHS websites:

• https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/
• https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer/#

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of bowel cancer and also supporting those who have been diagnosed with 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:

• ABC of colorectal cancer / Young, Annie M.; Hobbs, Richard; Kerr, David J.; 2011 2^nd ed [Chichester ; BMJ Books]. Also available as a Keele and NHS ebook.

• Bowel cancer : foundations for practice / Borwell, Barbara; 2005 [London : Whurr Publishers Ltd]

• Multidisciplinary treatment of colorectal cancer : staging, treatment, pathology, palliation / Baatrup, Gunnar; 2014 [Berlin : Springer]

• Colorectal surgery / Phillips, Robin K. S.; Clark, Sue; 2014 5^th ed [Edinburgh : Saunders/Elsevier]

• Histopathology Reporting : Guidelines for Surgical Cancer / Boyle, David P., Allen, Derek C., 2020 4^th ed [Cham : Springer]

• Clinical gastroenterology a practical problem-based approach / Talley, Nicholas J.; 2011 3^rd ed [Sydney : Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier]. Also available as a Keele ebook.

• Living with cancer : a step-by-step guide for coping medically and emotionally with a serious diagnosis / Jackson, Vicki A.; Ryan, David P., 2017 [Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press]

JOURNALS:

• Gut / England: BMJ Publishing Group LTD. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1960 onwards with 6 month embargo, & as NHS ejournal 1960 onwards].

• Colorectal Cancer / Future Medicine Ltd. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2012 - 2012, & as NHS ejournal 2017 - 2020].

• Clinical Colorectal Cancer / Dallas, Tex. : CIG Media Group. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2001 onwards, & as NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].

• Current Medical Literature . Colorectal Cancer / London : Current Medical Literature. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2003 - 2011, & as NHS ejournal 2010 - 2011].

• Current colorectal cancer reports / Philadelphia, Pa. : Current Science Inc. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2005 onwards].

• Colorectal disease / Oxford, England : Blackwell Science. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1999 onwards].

• International Journal of Colorectal Disease / New York : Springer International. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards, & as NHS ejournal 1997 onwards with 1 year embargo].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Lavanchy JL; Vaisnora L; Haltmeier T; Zlobec I; Brügger LE; Candinas D; Schnüriger B; “Oncologic long-term outcomes of emergency versus elective resection for colorectal cancer.”, International journal of colorectal disease, 2019, Vol. 34 Pt. 12, pp. 2091-2099. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• Axelrad, Jordan E ; Olén, Ola ; Sachs, Michael C, et al; “Inflammatory bowel disease and risk of small bowel cancer: a binational population-based cohort study from Denmark and Sweden”, Gut, 2021 Vol.70 Pt.2  pp.297-308. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• D'Souza, N ; Abulafi, M; “Navigating the storm of COVID‐19 for patients with suspected bowel cancer”, British journal of surgery, 2020, Vol.107 Pt.7 pp.e204-e204. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• Biju, Kevin, Zhang, George Q., Stem, Miloslawa, et al; “Impact of Treatment Coordination on Overall Survival in Rectal Cancer”, Clinical Colorectal Cancer, 2021, Vol. 20, Pt. 3, pp. 187-196. [Available via Keele ejournals & Open Access]

• Peacock, O ; Clayton, S ; Atkinson, F ; Tierney, G. M ; Lund, J. N; “'Be Clear on Cancer': the impact of the UK National Bowel Cancer Awareness Campaign”; Colorectal disease, 2013 Vol.15 Pt.8 pp.963-967. [Available via Keele ejournals]

• Alemrajabi, Mahdi; Moradi, Mohammad; Amiri, Esmail; Vahdani, Masoud.; “Therapeutic challenges in colorectal surgery practice during COVID-19 outbreak: a case series”; Colorectal Cancer, 2020 Vol.9 Pt.4 https://doi.org/10.2217/crc-2020-0014 [Available via Keele ejournals & Open Access]

• Faury S, Koleck M, Foucaud J, M'Bailara K, Quintard B., “Patient education interventions for colorectal cancer patients with stoma: A systematic review.”, Patient Education and Counselling, 2017, October, Vol.100 Pt 10, pp.1807-1819. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2017.05.034 . Epub 2017 Jun 3. PMID: 28602564. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]

• Kotronoulas G, Papadopoulou C, Burns-Cunningham K, Simpson M, Maguire R., “A systematic review of the supportive care needs of people living with and beyond cancer of the colon and/or rectum.”, European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2017,  August, Vol. 29, pp.60-70. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon.2017.05.004. Epub 2017 May 30. PMID: 28720267. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals; and Open Access]

PATIENT INFORMARION / PATIENT ADVICE:

• NHS Website
• Bowel cancer https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer/
• Living with bowel cancer https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer/living-with/ 

• NHS Inform – Bowel cancer https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/cancer/cancer-types-in-adults/bowel-cancer

• NICE Evidence - Bowel cancer with ‘Information for the public’ filter search https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=bowel+cancer&sp=on

• MacMillan Cancer Support – Bowel Cancer https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/bowel-cancer

• Cancer Research UK – Bowel cancer https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/bowel-cancer

• Bowel Research UK – Bowel cancer https://www.bowelresearchuk.org/about-bowels/bowel-cancer/

• Gov.uk – Bowel cancer screening programme - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/bowel-cancer-screening-programme-overview

• Patient Info – Colon, rectal & bowel cancer- colorectal cancer https://patient.info/cancer/colon-rectal-bowel-cancer-colorectal

• Health Talk – Bowel Cancer https://healthtalk.org/colorectal-cancer/overview

• Clinical Key [available to UHNM only]
• Colorectal cancer [patient education page] https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_47fe6658-36ea-48c3-866c-d11ba6db1033
• Colorectal cancer: Screening and prevention [patient education page] https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_Netter_2016_book036_handout138_en
• Managing your colon cancer [patient education page] https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_Netter_2016_book036_handout698_en

CURRENT AWARENESS:

• Health Library current awareness service: - Cancer https://www.netvibes.com/healthlibrary_northstaffs#Cancer

• Health Library at County current awareness service - Cancer https://www.protopage.com/pgmclibrary#Cancer