'Poo' adverts about bowel cancer

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Motorrad

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6,811 posts

186 months

Saturday 18th February 2012
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Laudable though this is I find the word 'poo' pathetic and mawkish.

As we're presumably talking about cancer here (no fking big c here) then I think saying 'st' might make some people wake up and smell reality (which by the way sometimes smells of st as well as coffee).

These are the same people who say people have 'passed over' rather than died I assume. Passed over to fking what? Not everyone believes in some made up after life scheme to assure compliance/acceptance.

Monty Zoomer

1,459 posts

156 months

Saturday 18th February 2012
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What are you on about?????

Wheelrepairit

2,904 posts

203 months

Saturday 18th February 2012
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Anyone noticed the Dr they all speak to is called " Dr Bowley".

Gotta be a joke surely .

essayer

9,010 posts

193 months

Saturday 18th February 2012
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Monty Zoomer said:
What are you on about?????
The ads lately where people are shown trying to explain that they are stting blood and coming up with lots of euphemisms

At the end it says "if you have any problems with your poo"



craigjm

17,908 posts

199 months

Saturday 18th February 2012
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Friend of mine at work is paranoid about all things like this and went to the doctor and said he thought he had bowel cancer because of the adverts and the doc looked at him and said

"you are morbidly obese and unable to lose weight, bowel cancer would have shifted three stone off you already, go home!"


tank slapper

7,949 posts

282 months

Saturday 18th February 2012
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My mum's partner had bowel cancer, and only found out because of the screening programme for people over a certain age. It was just a small sample collecting kit that had to be returned, and they contacted him to say they had found anomalous results, and that he needed to go for further tests. He was asked to go for a colonoscopy where they found some polyps which were at the very early stages of becoming cancerous. He had an operation very soon afterwards to remove the majority of his large bowel.

Fortunately, because it was caught so early it hadn't spread any further it's not expected to recur. He had no symptoms, and no idea that anything was amiss until they contacted him, so it's well worth returning the screening kit if you get sent one.

craigjm

17,908 posts

199 months

Saturday 18th February 2012
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tank slapper said:
My mum's partner had bowel cancer, and only found out because of the screening programme for people over a certain age. It was just a small sample collecting kit that had to be returned, and they contacted him to say they had found anomalous results, and that he needed to go for further tests. He was asked to go for a colonoscopy where they found some polyps which were at the very early stages of becoming cancerous. He had an operation very soon afterwards to remove the majority of his large bowel.

Fortunately, because it was caught so early it hadn't spread any further it's not expected to recur. He had no symptoms, and no idea that anything was amiss until they contacted him, so it's well worth returning the screening kit if you get sent one.
Good advice that. At what age do they do that?

tank slapper

7,949 posts

282 months

Saturday 18th February 2012
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I believe it is for those over 60. More info here: http://www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/bowel/

unclepockets

553 posts

165 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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Wheelrepairit said:
Anyone noticed the Dr they all speak to is called " Dr Bowley".

Gotta be a joke surely .
I noticed this, I think James Bolam has a strange way of saying pooooooo, I'm no prude but perhaps a technical term would smack less of dumbing down?

Simpo Two

85,147 posts

264 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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'Faeces' would be sufficient. It is after all what they are called.


Don't want adverts talkling abotu 'st' thanks very much, things are low enough already.

Steffan

10,362 posts

227 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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craigjm said:
Friend of mine at work is paranoid about all things like this and went to the doctor and said he thought he had bowel cancer because of the adverts and the doc looked at him and said

"you are morbidly obese and unable to lose weight, bowel cancer would have shifted three stone off you already, go home!"
If that is true the Doctor is running serious risks of a malpractice action.

I understand the sentiment but actually saying that to a patient would undoubtedly be regarded as malpractice.

Despite having a long history of serious medical disorders over many years I have always received outstanding service from the Medical profession. Always. Every time.

You would have to be mad to spend seven years training to help patients with an attitude like that.



FunBusMk2

17,911 posts

217 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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I've wondered too why they use 'Poo' instead of 'Stools'. Perhaps it's aimed at those who are too thick to know what a stool is.

I'm all for this campaign. My Dad died from Bowel Cancer in 2005 at the age of 63. Five years earlier the family GP told him he had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. When things got no better, my Dad went back to the GP and was referred for tests. The tests came back with the C word, Dad had a colostomy operation but over time it all came back.

IainW

1,631 posts

174 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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FunBusMk2 said:
I'm all for this campaign. My Dad died from Bowel Cancer in 2005 at the age of 63. Five years earlier the family GP told him he had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. When things got no better, my Dad went back to the GP and was referred for tests. The tests came back with the C word, Dad had a colostomy operation but over time it all came back.
Same here. My Dad was released from hospital yesterday after a 5 day stay following removal of part of his bowel which had polyps that were at an early stage. All thanks to the screening programme. From what the consultant was saying a few months back, they've caught a lot of people, hence it's taken 3 months from the initial discovery through a colonoscopy, to the actual surgery. I'm all for it, too many people (like my Dad's sister) are ignoring the testing kits they've been sent because it's "disgusting". Well if it save your life, you won't be complaining will you!

drivin_me_nuts

17,949 posts

210 months

Monday 20th February 2012
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Motorrad said:
Laudable though this is I find the word 'poo' pathetic and mawkish.

As we're presumably talking about cancer here (no fking big c here) then I think saying 'st' might make some people wake up and smell reality (which by the way sometimes smells of st as well as coffee).

These are the same people who say people have 'passed over' rather than died I assume. Passed over to fking what? Not everyone believes in some made up after life scheme to assure compliance/acceptance.
It's tricky to find a word that is suitable and in the common venacular that would pass ASA approval and be comfortable enough for a wide range of people to not curl up and wince at whilst hearing whilst eating their coco pops.

To relate to an audience you have to use language they use. Faeces - probably too clinical a word. st, too coarse and offensive.

Trying to connect the general public to cancer and cancer awareness isn't easy. The vast majority of people aren't as direct as you. They would rather hear the Big C than cancer. Cancer is too scary a word for a great many people. It's too massive. Add to that bowel cancer and the 'dirty' and messy part of that anatomy and it becomes harder still. Add furthe the age group predminantly being targeted.

I've seen it a fair few times. Mention breast cancer and people often react in a more kinesthetic way than then do if you talk about bowel cancer. I think it's an ad that gets you listening without feel unconfortable. You know what it's about, without running the risk of making many people mentally wince and switch off. IMO it's very well done.



ruggedscotty

5,606 posts

208 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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This saves lifes - Dont care what they call it poo crap ste or what ever.....

Screening will catch it before it gets a hold...

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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FunBusMk2 said:
I've wondered too why they use 'Poo' instead of 'Stools'. Perhaps it's aimed at those who are too thick to know what a stool is.

I'm all for this campaign. My Dad died from Bowel Cancer in 2005 at the age of 63. Five years earlier the family GP told him he had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. When things got no better, my Dad went back to the GP and was referred for tests. The tests came back with the C word, Dad had a colostomy operation but over time it all came back.
That sounds like what happened to my sister; complaints about stomach pains passed off as IBS. Eventually she was diagnosed with bowel and liver cancer and died nine months later. But she was only 43; don't assume its an old person's disease.

Oakey

27,523 posts

215 months

Thursday 21st August 2014
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Halmyre said:
That sounds like what happened to my sister; complaints about stomach pains passed off as IBS. Eventually she was diagnosed with bowel and liver cancer and died nine months later. But she was only 43; don't assume its an old person's disease.
You try getting them to take you seriously if you're not an 'old person' though. I've had issues with my bowel and at least three GP's dismissed bowel cancer because "you're too young" (I was about 30 at the time).

Hell, last time I went about this I argued with the GP because he insisted I'd had a colonoscopy (because his computer said so) even though I only had a sigmoidoscopy.