bowel cancer symptoms: woman holding stomach while exercising
8 'red flag' bowel cancer symptoms to knowVasilii Binzari - Getty Images

Following the recent tragic death of Irish Olympian Ciara Mageean from bowel cancer, aged just 34, medical professionals and people with lived experience of the disease have been highlighting the symptoms we should all be aware of.

Ciara also dedicated much of the last 17 months of her life to raising awareness of bowel cancer and its rising rates among younger people, as well as sharing her deeply personal experience with the disease in her recently published memoir, My Greatest Race.