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• What is bowel cancer?

  Find out what bowel cancer is, including which parts of the body are affected.

• Ankylosing spondylitis - Complications

  Read about complications of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), which can affect many parts of your body.

• Thalassaemia - Causes

  Read about what causes thalassaemia, how it's inherited and how it affects the body.

• Polymyalgia rheumatica - Diagnosis

  A series of blood tests may be used to check the levels of inflammation in your body.

• Rheumatoid arthritis - Symptoms

  Rheumatoid arthritis mainly affects the joints, although it can cause problems in other parts of the body too.

• What is IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)

  Find out what irritable bowel syndrome is, including which parts of the body are affected.

• Lymphoedema

  Read about lymphoedema, a long-term condition that causes swelling in the body's tissues.

• Kidney stones - Causes

  They're usually the result of a build-up of a substance like calcium, ammonia or uric acid in the body.

• Sarcoidosis

  Sarcoidosis is a rare condition that causes small patches of swollen tissue, called granulomas, to develop in the organs of the body.

• Post-mortem

  A post-mortem, also known as an autopsy, is the examination of a body after death.