Mr James explained that anal cancer was “extremely rare” but cases were increasing. <\/p>\n
Symptoms include bleeding from the anus, persistent itching, pain or discomfort, and lumps or swelling.<\/p>\n
“Currently there is no screening process, only a few guidelines,” Mr James said.<\/p>\n
“I tend to see patients who have been referred because they have shown symptoms, have had haemorrhoid surgery or are an at-risk patient.”<\/p>\n
He added: “Patients can access appointments closer to home in a more comfortable and time-effective outpatient setting, which will ultimately improve the healthcare experience and outcomes for our patients.”<\/p>\n
Prof Sir Neil Mortensen, chair of Occtopus, said the charity was proud to fund the equipment.<\/p>\n
He said it meant patients across the Oxford would receive “world class care closer to home”, placing the city as “a leader in colorectal healthcare”.<\/p>\n
“We are proud to support OUH in expanding this important service and to assist in the positive impact it has on local patients,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr James explained that anal cancer was “extremely rare” but cases were increasing. Symptoms include bleeding from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-342826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}