Bowel cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is the second most lethal cancer after lung cancer, with the highest incidence rates being reported in developed countries. Accordin ...

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 ...

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

Hundreds of thousands more people will be sent a bowel cancer home-testing kit as the NHS marked the final step in making screening available to everyone aged 50 to 74 years old. People aged 50 and 52 ...

If you're aged 50 to 74 and registered with a GP in England, Scotland or Wales, you'll automatically get a bowel cancer ...

A grandfather who was diagnosed with cancer following a home screening test has said early detection saved his life. James Walker, from Dromore, County Down, was diagnosed with bowel cancer in ...

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"Please don't die of ignorance" says former Olympian Iwan Thomas who was diagnosed with cancerous cells in his bowel after ...

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 ...

A mother of two is urging people to take part in bowel cancer screening after an at-home test led her to get treatment.

A potentially life-saving bowel cancer screening test can spot the disease at an early stage at West Herts Teaching Hospital ...