This Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, we’re placing the symptoms in plain sight. The question is: will people notice them—just like the real signs of bowel cancer?
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Which are you – Quiet Watcher, Middle Grounder or Peacock?
Watch the quiet ones.
Show Me Your Medical Card: How a Piece of Plastic Became the Gatekeeper to Community Healthcare in Ireland
The medical card was designed to make sure income didn’t stop people accessing healthcare. In too many community settings today, it has become the reason they can’t.
Men in Scotland(everywhere) will do ANYTHING to avoid going to the doctor.
ANYTHING.
A huge number of bookings have been made by WOMEN. For the men in their lives. Because apparently our wives and partners and daughters have decided they’d quite like us to stick around, even if we haven’t got round to deciding that for ourselves yet.
Shared Decision-Making: The Gap Between What Doctors Think They Explain and What Patients Hear
It isn’t poor practice. It is structural: a 10-minute appointment, an assumption of comprehension, professional confidence that information delivered is information received, but no real mechanism to verify understanding.
HSE Publications on Lynch Syndrome
Available here:
Advocating for a National Registry for Patients with cancer-predisposing genetic alterations
Pilot registry in St. James’s Hospital for patients with a cancer-predisposing genetic alteration called the CAmPaiGn Study and are delighted to be actively recruiting patients.
While this is an important first step, we do not believe it is enough. We are strongly advocating for a national registry, as we feel this is both deserved and urgently needed.
If you have one of these alterations, please complete our PPI survey: https://surveymonkey.com/r/PKMSGD3
Every response will help strengthen the argument that a national registry is needed, wanted, and justified .
Young researchers from the ColoMARK network across Europe
| n December 2023 PVCR and Bowel Cancer Ireland (previously Irish Colorectal Cancer Community) ran an in-person training workshop for 10 young researchers from the ColoMARK network across Europe. These 10 young researchers are now releasing a ColoMARK video series. |
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| These short videos offer a glimpse into their individual research projects on colorectal cancer detection and monitoring, showcasing the interdisciplinary and cutting-edge work being conducted within the ColoMARK MSCA Doctoral Network. New videos are released weekly. Watch and subscribe to the series on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ColoMARK_DN |
OUR HEALTH SYSTEM – “Surely not”
Listen Very Carefully, I Shall Say This Only Once…
Picture this: You’re sitting in your GP surgery, desperately trying to convince your doctor that yes, you’d quite like a PSA test, thank you very much.
It’s 2025, and we’re still playing this ridiculous game where blokes have to practically beg for a simple blood test.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. One in eight of us….. will get it…..
So, dear healthcare policymakers, commissioners, and guideline writers:
Listen very carefully, because I shall say this only once – sort it out!
Men’s lives depend on it.
Lynch Syndrome Ireland 