Dawson's Creek actor James Van Der Beek has died at the age of 48 from bowel cancer. What are the main symptoms and causes of the disease, and how can you reduce your risk of getting it? Having these ...

Bowel cancer is the fourth most prevalent cancer in the UK, and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, according to Bowel Cancer UK. It is also increasingly being diagnosed in young people ...

In the UK, someone is diagnosed with bowel cancer every 12 minutes and around 17,000 people die from it each year. Also called colorectal cancer, it is the second most common cause of cancer death in ...

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Colorectal cancer symptoms a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist monitors in himself include seeing blood with a bowel movement and abdominal pain.