A woman who was going to the toilet 40 times a day says she feels like a "new woman" after having her entire bowel removed during emergency surgery and now lives with a permanent stoma. Charlie Ryan, ...

Adele Roberts completed the London Marathon on Sunday less than a year after finishing chemotherapy. She is the fastest woman to complete the London Marathon with a stoma bag. Roberts is raising ...

Not everyone with colorectal cancers and bowel diseases needs a colostomy. You may be able to avoid ostomy surgery, depending on the reason for it. A colostomy is a surgical procedure that creates an ...

In November 2021, 29-year-old Holly Fleet was in an emergency ward, undergoing surgery to remove her colon. Just over a year later, she is pregnant with her first baby. Fleet, aka Stomababe, was ...

Colostomy prolapse is a complication of colostomy surgery where the bowel protrudes through the stoma. This complication can make it hard to care for the stoma and may affect quality of life. A ...

Patients can be reassured that delays in stoma reversal surgery do not affect long-term outcomes according to research funded by Bowel Cancer UK and North West Cancer Research. The Lancaster ...

Alan Lamb's life changed for the better after he had a stoma fitted three years ago, but getting used to talking about it publicly has been a tougher operation. The Leeds city councillor, who ...