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Hereditary bowel cancer syndromes (Lynch syndrome and FAP)

Most bowel cancer is not inherited.

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Appendicitis

Appendicitis is the commonest surgical emergency of the abdomen. Roughly one person in fifteen develops it during their lifetime.

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Large bowel obstruction is a surgical emergency.

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Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory disease confined to the colon and rectum.

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Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory condition that can affect any part of the digestive tract.

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Diverticula are small pouches that form in the wall of the colon.

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A bowel polyp is a growth projecting from the lining of the colon or rectum.

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Rectal cancer arises in the last fifteen centimetres of the large bowel.

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Colon cancer is one of the commonest cancers and also one of the most preventable.