Our Patient Voices Group is the only UK national patient-to-patient network for people suffering from bowel cancer.  It is a group of bowel cancer patients who are willing to help in a number of ways:

• Patient-to-patient support – patients in the group are happy to talk to other patients about their experience of bowel cancer, either on the telephone, by email or even through local support groups that they have established. We can put patients in touch with each other – matching them by age, region or their stage of bowel cancer and treatment pathway.

• Raising awareness - at the charity, we are working hard to encourage people to talk openly about the disease, to raise awareness of symptoms and promote early diagnosis. If you have bowel cancer, or have recovered from the disease, your help in getting this message across will be invaluable, as you will know, better than anyone, the importance of educating people about bowel cancer. Patients in the group help us by talking about their experience to the media, to their local MP, within local organisations, or at committee meetings.

• Fundraising – some patients want to wave the flag for bowel cancer in their local area, and organise fundraising events to raise money for Beating Bowel Cancer.

The group is informal and patients can be as involved as their time and lifestyle allows.

If you would like to speak to another bowel cancer patient, please contact our Patient Voices Co-Ordinator on 020 8892 5256 who will put you in touch with someone.

If you would like to join the Patient Voices Group, click here.