Bowel & Cancer Research - What The Charity Does

What The Charity Does

Operating out of the Centre for Academic Surgery at the Royal London Hospital (a centre of excellence in the field of bowel disorder), Bowel & Cancer Research permanently funds a custom designed clinical grade Colorectal Cancer Laboratory. It funds scientists and clinicians through the Saving Lives (bowel cancer research) and Changing Lives (non-cancer research/innovations in surgery) programmes. The charity is led by Professor Norman Williams, MB, MS, FRCS, FMedSci, a world renowned surgeon and pioneer in the field of bowel disorders.

Bowel & Cancer Research's vision is that no one should die of bowel cancer or be compelled to live with a stoma (colostomy or ileostomy).

In pursuit of this vision Bowel & Cancer Research has established two programmes:

1. Saving Lives: improving survival rates for bowel cancer sufferers through pioneering research into the spread and behaviour of cancer in specific at risk populations.

2. Changing Lives: investigating the causes, effects and treatment of bowel disorders other than cancer which are currently poorly understood and, through pioneering innovations in surgery and allied therapies, improve the quality of life of patients. In particular we aim to eliminate the need for patients to rely upon a stoma.