Every year, more than 3,300 Kiwis are diagnosed with bowel cancer, and 1,200 die from the disease, including 350 people under the age of 50. We need your help to change these statistics!

Take action and email or write to your local MPs (contact details here), our Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and the Health Minister Dr Shane Reti.

Urge them to ACT NOW and save lives! To do what the government promised – lower the bowel screening age. The USA and Australia also screen from age 45, so we are falling further and further behind by not lowering the screening age from 60 as it currently stands.

The most powerful letters to politicians are those written in your own words. Download our letter template below – use the copy as a starting point, but change it to suit your voice and feelings.

If you or your whānau have been personally impacted by bowel cancer, then make sure to add this to your letter, too. We need our government to act, and your experience is vital in conveying why!