While mammograms and smear tests are widely recognised, a crucial screening for bowel cancer often goes unnoticed, with new data revealing that nearly a third of eligible individuals in England are ...

The kit, known as the faecal immunochemical test (FIT), checks for blood in a small stool sample, which can be a sign of bowel cancer. FIT kits are used at home by putting a poo sample in a small tube ...

Bowel cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is the second most lethal cancer after lung cancer, with the highest incidence ...

MILLIONS more people are benefiting from life-saving bowel screening compared to a decade ago – according to the NHS. Almost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NHS England / SWNS) A ‘fit and healthy’ father says taking a bowel cancer screening test that dropped on his doorstep was like a ...

"And then, it was not." Fleming was diagnosed with bowel cancer about 18 months ago, after undergoing a Faecal Immunochemical ...

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 bowel cancer screening has now tested nearly 85million people for the disease and uptake has soared with the help of Sun ...

An Oldbury grandmother who threw two bowel cancer screening kits in the bin before being diagnosed with an advanced form of the disease has welcomed a £5.5 million investment into research. Sign up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A NHS bowel-cancer screening programme home testing kit (PA/Alamy) While mammograms and smear tests are widely recognised, a ...