NHS England is set to significantly enhance its bowel cancer screening programme, aiming to detect thousands more cases at an earlier, more treatable stage. From next month, the national health ...

NHS England said it will lower the detection threshold for the home-screening stool kit from next month, bringing it into line with what already happens in Scotland and Wales. The move means thousands ...

In a drive to increase home bowel cancer screening the NHS is asking people to "Put it by the loo. Don’t put it off". Nearly 43,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer every year in the UK, and it ...

Please can you give a brief overview of the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) home screening kit for bowel cancer? FIT (faecal immunochemical test) is a screening test for bowel cancer which detects ...

A fitness instructor has revealed how a straightforward NHS screening potentially saved his life. Ivan Corsby believed he was in excellent health, yet he was unknowingly living with early-stage bowel ...

The NHS in England is improving the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening in a bid to pick up thousands more cases that could be prevented or caught early. NHS England said it will lower the detection ...

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