Healthcare experts promote bowel cancer screening

This Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, healthcare staff from across the Black Country are raising awareness of the causes of the condition, including potential signs and where to seek advice. Wolverhampton’s Bowel Cancer Screening Programme aims to increase participation in screening amongst eligible people, aged 50 to 74, and among communities which have historically been less […]

“Life saver” event draws attention to bowel cancer testing and early treatment

A bowel cancer campaigner who was diagnosed after missing two chances to get tested has organised an event to draw attention to the condition because “survival shouldn’t come down to luck”.

Your RWTC awarded funds to deliver vital wellbeing support to NHS staff

Men’s health and screening clinics, along with wellbeing and lifestyle support, will be provided for staff at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust thanks to a grant of just under £45,000 secured through its charity.

Survivor urges Black men to break taboos around prostate cancer

A Wolverhampton prostate cancer survivor who lost all three of his brothers to the disease will be a special guest at a conference raising awareness of the condition. Simeon Greene, 60, believes a reluctance to talk about cancer meant his brothers never shared their diagnoses until he revealed his own. He has since researched his […]