Study to Prevent Radiation Induced Damage to Bowel Using a Prebiotic Enhanced Diet.

Inclusion Criteria: * The study group will comprise men and women aged 18 years or older with a histologically proven diagnosis of carcinoma of the prostate or carcinoma of the cervix or endometrium in whom radical radiotherapy has been selected in their treatment plan following assessment by the prostate oncology or gynecological oncology multidisciplinary team Exclusion Criteria: * Exclusion criteria will preclude the recruitment of those having radiotherapy for purely palliative reasons. Patients known to have a current infection with an enteric pathogen, or who have used antibiotics within the past month, consumed any probiotic or prebiotic within the last month, or used any rectal/topical therapy within the last month will also be ineligible. Those known or suspected to have inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease) will be ineligible. Patients requiring hospitalisation, and those considered by the chief investigator (CI) to have important hepatic, renal, endocrine, respiratory, neurological or cardiovascular disease will also be ineligible.