Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Berwick has pledged her support to the 'Cross Cancer Out' campaign, run by Cancer Research UK, which is fighting for improvements in early diagnosis and access to treatment for cancer patients.
Cancer survival rates have doubled in the last 40 years and the charity is calling for political action to accelerate this progress and is campaigning to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms, to increase participation in the national bowel cancer screening programme and for equal access to treatments including surgery and drugs.
Anne-Marie Trevelyan said; "I am fully behind this campaign. My grandmother died of colon cancer and I cared for her at home so I too know first hand how we desperately need to ensure early diagnosis, access to treatment and a cure for this awful disease".