Bowel cancer diagnosis delayed by other illness

Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - 11:32 in Health & Medicine

A new study revealed that additional serious long-term health conditions, such as heart disease, can push a bowel cancer diagnosis back by up to twenty six days. The latest figures suggest that around 70% of people have at least one of these potentially serious long-term health conditions at the time they are diagnosed with cancer.

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