What could we achieve?
Bowel cancer is near unique in the number of opportunities we have to stop people dying from it. With all these tools in our arsenal, some clinicians and charities worldwide have begun to ask: can we move towards a future where nobody dies of bowel cancer?
To inform our Case for Change, we undertook a review of international evidence, analysing the opportunities presented by developing practices, technologies and pathways with potential to reduce bowel cancer deaths in Wales – and examining the fit of each opportunity with the reality of services in Wales today. Using this evidence base, we asked: if we took every opportunity available to us in bowel cancer prevention, diagnosis, and care, what could we achieve?
Over 60 bowel cancer professionals have helped to shape the review, and the subsequent case for change
You can download the review below: