Lynn Faulds Wood

Lynn Faulds Wood is an award-winning UK TV presenter who, after a year of doctor delay, survived advanced colorectal cancer. She switched to making medical programmes on cancer, the first on family doctor training in cancer symptoms watched by over 10 million people.  Following an investigative programme on colon cancer - "Bobby Moore & Me" - Lynn received 28,000 letters and gave up most TV work to concentrate on helping to save lives from colon cancer.
Since then, she has helped to produce the world's first research-based guidelines on the symptoms of colorectal cancer, officially adopted by the UK's Department of Health in 2000, helped pioneer diagnostic training programmes in colonoscopy for doctors/nurses and the setting up of formal training centres around the country. 
Lynn has involved major celebrities in the UK (like Prince Charles) in campaigns to raise awareness of colorectal cancer and helped the Pope to launch the first global colorectal cancer awareness campaign. 
She is President of the European Cancer Patient Coalition, which runs the Secretariat for MEPs Against Cancer in the European Parliament and is credited, with the politicians, with getting cancer officially back on the European agenda.  ECPC represents over 270 cancer patient groups in 41 countries and the European Commissioner for Health is a patron of the Coalition. 
Lynn has an honorary doctorate for services to colon cancer and runs the UK charity Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign - website:  http://www.bowelcancer.tv/
European Cancer Patient Coalition website:  http://www.ecpc-online.org/

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