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Decembeard 2024 - Bowel Cancer awareness

 “Grow a beard for bowel cancer”


Every December the charity, Bowel Cancer UK, asks people to ditch the razors and grow or style a beard to support everyone affected by bowel cancer.  According to their website, bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK, with around 44,000 people diagnosed every year. This campaign is aimed at raising awareness and funds to support research and treatment.

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES 

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.


BOOKS   

  • Maingot's Abdominal operations; Maingot, Rodney; Zinner, Michael J; Ashley, Stanley W; 2007 (McGraw Hill Medical); 11th edition – [Keele & NHS e-books also available]
  • Colorectal surgery (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Surgery series); Molloy, Richard G; 2021 (Oxford University Press); 2nd edition – [only available as an NHS e-book]
  • Stoma care; Burch, Jennie; 2008 (Wiley) – [also available as a Keele e-book]


JOURNALS   

  • Clinical colorectal cancer; Cancer Information Group; (CIG Media Group) – [available as a Keele e-journal from 2001 onwards, and UHNM ejournal from 2007 onwards.]
  • BMJ open gastroenterology; British Society of Gastroenterology, issuing body; (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd) – [available as an OpenAccess e-journal from 2014 onwards]
  • EMJ Gastroenterology; (European Medical Journal) – [available as an OpenAccess e-journal from 2012 onwards]

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT log-ins to view e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke.

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

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available online to both Keele & NHS users.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  
KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians.For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/. 

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