News

BSG Live ’24 – Professor Colin Rees’ inauguration as BSG President, and awards for COLO-COHORT and COLO-DETECT.Read more

There is strong evidence from the World Cancer Research Fund that being physically active - moving more and sitting less – can protect against bowel cancer.Read more

The December 2023 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is here!Read more

The December 2024 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is here!Read more

The June 2024 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is here!Read more

The March 2024 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is here!Read more

The March 2025 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is here!Read more

The September 2024 edition of the COLO-COHORT newsletter is here!Read more

Wow! We have now recruited 10,000 patients to the COLO-COHORT study!Read more

COLO-COHORT has officially marked its next major milestone of 6000 patients!Read more

We are very pleased to announce that we have now recruited 7000 patients to COLO-COHORT!Read more

We are excited to inform you that COLO-COHORT has now recruited 8000 patients – a massive milestone!Read more

Christmas came early for the COLO-COHORT team this year – we have now recruited 9000 patients to our study!Read more

Our feature on BBC Morning Live provided our team with the opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of bowel cancer screening, as well as allowing some of our patients to tell their stories of how the use of AI in colonoscopy helped to identify potentially harmful polyps in their bowel.Read more

Our Principal Investigator Professor Colin Rees and COLO-DETECT patient Jean Tyler were invited to London to feature on ITV’s Lorraine, to share the findings of the COLO-DETECT Trial, as part of ITV’s NoButts campaign.Read more

This week, the COLO-DETECT trial has been published in The Lancet.Read more

The COLO-SPEED Research Team have launched a new Patient and Public involvement Group in the North East!Read more

The COLO-SPEED team recently won the Research Award (sponsored by NIHR Clinical Research Network North East and North Cumbria) at the South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (STSFT) Staff Recognition Awards!Read more

As we have reached the end of the COLOFIT research programme, it was delightful to bring together our investigators, research team, patient and public representatives, charities, NICE, NHS and third sector stakeholders for our London Dissemination Day!Read more

This week, a qualitative COLOFIT paper looking at practitioner’s perspectives on symptomatic FIT has been published in BJGP.Read more

In partnership with The British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and The Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain & Ireland (ACPGBI), Newcastle University hosted a workshop to discuss approaches to early onset colorectal cancer (EOCRC).Read more

For Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, the COLO-SPEED team hosted an awareness day at The Grainger Market in Newcastle!Read more