Bowel Cancer Awareness Month – April 2022

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

Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK and the second biggest cancer killer. Nearly 43,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer every year in the UK.

The 3 main symptoms of bowel cancer are:

• persistent blood in your poo – that happens for no obvious reason or is associated with a change in bowel habit
• a persistent change in your bowel habit – which is usually having to poo more and your poo may also become more runny
• persistent lower abdominal (tummy) pain, bloating or discomfort – that's always caused by eating and may be associated with loss of appetite or significant unintentional weight loss

In order to raise awareness for Bowel Cancer, the team at Bowel Cancer UK are using 2022’s campaign to bring everyone together; as they believe that together we can save more lives.

For more information surrounding 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 and are recovering 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:

• The C list : colons, clinics, chemo and (quite a lot of) cake) : how I survived colon cancer / Brown, Rachel; 2014 [London : Watkins Publishing]

• What doesn't kill you... : the highs, lows and unexpected gifts of surviving cancer / Haynes, Rachel; 2020 [London : Watkins]

• ABC of colorectal cancer / Young, Annie M.; Hobbs, Richard, Kerr, David J.; 2011 2^nd ed [Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell]. Also available as a Keele and NHS e-book.

• 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., editor.; Allen, Derek C., editor.; 2020 4^th ed [Cham : Springer]

JOURNALS:

• Colorectal Cancer / London: Future Medicine Ltd. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2012 - 2015, & 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].

• Inflammatory Bowel Disease Monitor / London: Remedica Medical Education and Publishing. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2009 onwards, & as NHS ejournal 2010 - 2014].

• Gastric Cancer / Tokyo : Springer-Verlag Tokyo. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1998 onwards, & as NHS ejournal 2002 onwards with 1 year embargo].

• Journal of Gastric Cancer / Seoul : Korean Gastric Cancer Association. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2010 onwards, & as NHS ejournal 2010 - 2021].

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

• Journal of Cancer / Wyoming, N.S.W. : Ivyspring International Publisher [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2010 onwards; and Open Access]

• British Journal of Cancer / Basingstoke: Springer Nature  [Available in print 1994 – 2011, as a Keele ejournal 2000 onward, & NHS ejournal 1947 onwards]

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

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Myers, Larry ; Goodwin, Belinda C ; Ireland, Michael ; March, Sonja ; Aitken, Joanne; “Mail-out bowel cancer screening: Identifying the behavioural stumbling blocks”, Psycho-oncology, Dec 2021, pp. 1- 8 https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.5866 [Available via Keele ejournals.]

• Bateman, Adrian C ; Kurn, Octavia R ; Novelli, Marco R ; Rodriguez-Justo, Manuel ; Shepherd, Neil A ; Wong, Newton A C S; “The Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Expert Board: an analysis of activity during 2017-2020”, Histopathology,  Nov 2021, Vol. 80, pp. 782– 789 https://doi.org/10.1111/his.14597 [Available via Keele ejournals.]

• Xu Z; Qu H; Kanani G; Guo Z; Ren Y; Chen X; “Update on risk factors of surgical site infection in colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis”; International journal of colorectal disease, 2020, Vol. 35 Pt.12, pp. 2147-2156. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• Christopher J. Anker, Nataniel H. Lester-Coll, Dmitriy Akselrod, Peter A. Cataldo and Steven Ades; “The Potential for Overtreatment With Total Neoadjuvant Therapy (TNT): Consider One Local Therapy Instead”, Clinical Colorectal Cancer, 2022, Vol 21, Pt. 1, pp. 19-35. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• Welch, H. Gilbert ; Robertson, Douglas J; “Colorectal Cancer on the Decline — Why Screening Can’t Explain It All”, The New England journal of medicine, 2016, Vol.374 Pt.17, pp. 1605-1607. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• Williams, Evan ; Kong, Joseph C ; Singh, Parry ; Prabhakaran, Swetha ; Warrier, Satish K ; Bell, Stephen; “The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on colorectal cancer diagnosis and management: a Binational Colorectal Cancer Audit study”, ANZ journal of surgery, 2021 Vol.91 Pt.10, pp.2091-2096. [Available via Keele ejournals.]

• Khoo AM; Lau J; Loh XS; Ng CW; Griva K; Tan KK; “Understanding the psychosocial impact of colorectal cancer on young-onset patients: A scoping review.”, Cancer medicine, 2022, Apr; Vol. 11, Pt. 7, pp. 1688-1700. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals.]

• Koo, Sara; Neilson, Laura Jane; von Wagner, Christian; Rees, Colin John; “The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Program: current perspectives on strategies for improvement”, Risk Management and Healthcare Policy,. March 2020, p177, p.11, doi:10.2147/RMHP.S109116. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals; and Open Access.]

• Koutoukidis, D.A.; Beeken, R.J.; Lopes, S.; Knobf, M.T.; Lanceley, A.; “Attitudes, challenges and needs about diet and physical activity in endometrial cancer survivors: a qualitative study.”, European Journal of Cancer Care, 2017, Vol. 26, Pt. Issue 6, p. e12531.

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

• 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

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