An inflatable bowel is visiting The Mall Walthamstow this weekend as part of a cancer awareness campaign.
The NHS and Waltham Forest Council will be holding the event at the Mall, near the Big Screen, on Saturday between 10am and 3.30pm.
The 2.4-metre high replica of the human bowel illustrates various stages of bowel cancer and other diseases that affect it.
The event hopes to encourage 60 to 69-year-olds to use the free NHS bowel screening kits delivered for free to their homes.
The Mayor of Waltham Forest Cllr Richard Sweden will be present also to receive information about screening and a bowel cancer testing kit from Mr Michael Machesney, lead clinician for colorectal cancer at Whips Cross Hospital.
Mayor Sweden said: “I was unaware that in the Borough of Waltham Forest on average 32 people die each year from bowel cancer.
“This figure needs to be reduced and I urge all residents of the borough between the ages of 60 and 69 to take up the screening test opportunity when notification arrives through their door – the test is free and can be done in the privacy of their own home.”
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