The St Mark’s Centre for Familial Intestinal Cancer ensures prompt diagnosis and surveillance of patients with genetic conditions associated with bowel cancer or from a family at high risk of bowel cancers.

The Inherited Intestinal Cancer Syndromes are more commonly known as “polyposis” and/or “Lynch Syndrome”. The polyposis syndromes include Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP), Peutz Jeghers Syndrome (PJS), Juvenile Polyposis Syndrome (JPS), MYH Associated Polyposis (MAP), and Serrated Polyposis Syndrome (SPS).

The Polyposis Registry provides lifelong care for patients and their families with polyposis syndrome and is one of the longest running-research projects in the world.

The Lynch Syndrome and Family Cancer Service is a UK leader in genetic testing for Lynch and was integral to the creation of an English National Lynch Syndrome Registry which has massively increased Lynch diagnoses nationwide.

Both services offer advice to people who have a family history of colorectal or associated cancers, and provides screening, clinical follow-up and counselling.

A donation to The St Mark’s Centre for Familial Intestinal Cancer helps prevent colorectal cancer and supports research and education which will continue to advance clinical practice and improve patients’ lives.