Risks and causes of bowel cancer

Symptoms of bowel (colorectal) cancer can include bleeding from the back passage, blood in your poo or a change in your normal bowel habit.

You usually start by seeing your GP and they might refer you to a specialist and organise tests. Get information on what happens, and read about screening for bowel cancer.

The grade of a bowel (colorectal) cancer tells you how it might behave. Bowel cancer is also divided into different types depending on the type of cell that your cancer started in.

Bowel cancer screening aims to check for bowel cancer or abnormalities that could lead to bowel cancer. There are separate bowel screening programmes for the different countries in the UK.

Bowel cancer is also called colorectal cancer. It affects the large bowel, which is made up of the colon and rectum.

Bowel cancer means cancer that starts in the colon (large bowel) or back passage (rectum). It is also known as colorectal cancer.