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bowel movement

Defecation. Evacuating waste matter from the bowels.

Bowel cancer

…– it is called small bowel cancer or small intestine cancer. Bowel cancer grows from the inner lining of the bowel (mucosa). It usually develops from small growths on the bowel wall called polyps. Most polyps are harmless (benign) but…

rectum

The last 15–20 cm of the large bowel, which stores faeces until a bowel movement occurs….

News: June is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

Dear Editor, June is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, an opportunity for us to prevent bowel cancer and detect it early. About 3000 Queenslanders will be diagnosed with bowel cancer this year, and, tragically, 1000 will die from the disease. Only…

News: Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

This Bowel Cancer Awareness Month we are renewing our call for all eligible Queenslanders to take a bowel cancer screening test. Only about one in three eligible Queenslanders completes the free National Bowel Cancer Screening test, even though bowel cancer…

sphincter (anal)

Strong muscles that form a valve. The anal sphincter muscles relax when a bowel movement occurs….

bowel

The long, tube-shaped organ in the abdomen that is part of the digestive tract. The bowel has two parts: the small and large bowel. The large bowel includes the colon and the rectum.

bowel preparation

The process of cleaning out the bowel (removing faeces) before a test or scan to allow the doctor to see the bowel more clearly.

Research snapshot – Decisions and prompts to screen for cervical, bowel and breast cancer

…encourage hasty use of the bowel test kit on its arrival. Contact: Laura Anderson Reference: Anderson et al. (2024) Decisions and Prompts to Screen for Cervical, Bowel and Breast Cancer. Patient Education and Counselling. 2024 Jan 26;108174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2024.108174 Read more