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The National roll-out of the free bowel screening programme has today reached the half way point with 10 out of 20 District Health Board's (DHB) now up and running.

Mid Central was the tenth DHB to join the programme and is expected to save up to 60 live...

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New research released today showed that eating more fruit changed the gut bacteria enough to reduce incidents of pouchitis in Ulcerative Colitis (UC) patients.

Researchers from the Oxford Academic Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis reported that UC patients w...

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There are a few more spaces left for this years inaugural Inflatable Fun Run at SkyCity Boxing Day Races at Auckland Racing Club on December 26th.

The free family fun run is designed to raise funds and awareness of bowel cancer to the thousands of p...

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Auckland Health Foundation announced today they are collaborating with Bowel Cancer Foundation Trust on two significant pieces of bowel cancer research.

New Zealand has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world; it is the country’s secon...

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A call has been sent out for patients with moderate to severe Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn's Disease to participate in a new drug trial being undertaken here in NZ. 

A Safety Extension Study in participants with moderate to severe Ulcerative Colitis o...

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More than 375 people with bowel cancer have been detected and hundreds of potentially cancerous polyps removed from patients within the first two years of the launch of the National Bowel Screening Programme (NBSP).

Launched in 2017 after a successful pi...

Lou James, Founder & CEO of Pinc & Steel helping to rehabilitate NZ cancer patients

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The announcement today of a new Cancer Control Agency to begin in December is a great start to sorting out our cancer problem here in NZ, but If the government is se...

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Eating walnuts could offer ulcerative colitis sufferers some protection, according to a new study by researchers at UConn Health and Texas A&M University.

Walnuts have been shown to provide a number of health benefits, including protection against inflam...

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The government has promised $25million for 12 new radiation machines nationwide over 3 years but have yet to agree to setting up a National Cancer Agency. 

This comes in the wake of the announcement from Simon Bridges, the Le...

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The unfunded immunotherapy drug Keytruda, currently used to treat some bowel cancer patients in New Zealand, is the first drug to add additional indications for bowel cancer patients registered on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods via the...