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Be bold about your bowels; PATIENTS AND DOCTORS AT GEORGE ELIOT HOSPITAL AIM TO STOP PEOPLE DYING FROM IGNORANCE;.(News)

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From: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Date: 20000413
Author:Harris, Alan

BOWEL cancer is not a subject easily introduced into everyday conversation.

For most people it is a taboo disease but staff at George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton are eager to bring it out into the open to stop people dying from ignorance.

And, as National Bowel Cancer Week continues patient Audrey Smith is proof of a fulfilling life after surgery.

The pensioner has not changed her outgoing ways since having a colostomy operation last year and is urging people to overcome their fears and go straight to their GP if they have any bowel problems before it's too late.

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