Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the government wants “get behind” new ways of speeding up diagnosis for bowel cancer as he visits the Bowelbabe laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, named after campaigner Dame Deborah James. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Every time Dame Deborah is in the media as a result of her bowel cancer experience, we
00:06know that people look at the symptoms, they go and get tested. She continues to make a
00:11big difference today, not just in terms of awareness of bowel cancer, but the scientific
00:16breakthroughs. That's what the Bowel Babe Lab here at the Crick Institute with Cancer
00:22Research UK is doing, thanks to, in no small part, the fundraising, the generosity, and
00:28government wants to get behind this. We've already seen the breakthroughs in the new
00:34AI-enabled blood tests that will enable us to diagnose bowel cancer more accurately and
00:39more quickly, as well as 11 other cancers too. We want to make new breakthroughs in treatment
00:45just yesterday, a NICE approved new treatment for advanced stage bowel cancer. So we're pushing
00:51the boundaries all the time, but there's so much more to do to make sure that when people
00:55receive a bowel cancer diagnosis, they receive so in a timely way, and they get access to
01:00the latest cutting edge treatment so that the ending is a happy one.