Cancer – Bowel Screening

Cancer – Bowel Screening

NHS bowel cancer screening checks if you could have bowel cancer. It’s available to everyone aged 60 to 74 years.

The programme is expanding to make it available to everyone aged 50 to 59 years. This is happening gradually over 4 years and started in April 2021.

You use a home test kit, called a faecal immunochemical test (FIT), to collect a small sample of poo and send it to a lab. This is checked for tiny amounts of blood.

for more information:

visit:

NHS Information on Bowel Cancer Screening

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/bowel-cancer-screening/

How to do the FIT bowel cancer screening test | Cancer Research UK
https://youtu.be/il6VSceMWfM