'You have bowel cancer'.
Four words you don't expect to hear when you're young.
Yet each year over 1,413 young Australians do.
It is a common misconception that bowel cancer is 'an old person's disease', but the reality is that you should never be told that you are too young to have bowel cancer.
Although a large majority of newly diagnosed bowel cancer cases occur in people aged 50 years and over, 1 in 11 Australians diagnosed with bowel cancer are under the age of 50.
Contains the following booklet, brochures and infographics, which are also downloadable
