Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
Event date and time: 1 April 2026 to 30 April 2026
April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, a chance to raise awareness about the signs and symptoms of this disease. The earlier bowel cancer is spotted, the more treatable it is likely to be.
The national campaign resource centre has a suite of resources to raise awareness of bowel cancer symptoms and bowel screening. Find it here: Bowel Cancer Screening - Help Us, Help You
The leading charity, Bowel Cancer UK, has a toolkit of posters, videos and social media graphics which can be downloaded to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of the disease. Find it here: Bowel Cancer UK/ Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
It also has patient information leaflets here: Bowel Cancer UK patient publications
For healthcare professionals:
- Surrey and Sussex Cancer Alliance (SSCA) has a range of resources to
support health care professionals increase uptake to the bowel screening programme. Find them here: SSCA Bowel Screening Programme. Resources also include the SSCA toolkit for primary care to improve bowel screening uptake. - Bowel Cancer UK provides education resources, networking opportunities and services to support healthcare professionals and patients. Find it all here: Bowel Cancer UK for health professionals
- GatewayC has a range of free, CPD resources to support primary care professionals this Bowel Cancer Awareness Month. They cover earlier detection, screening and FIT. Find them below:
- For the SSCA FIT information toolkit for primary care, visit here: FIT and symptomatic patients