The FIT home testing kit has been available through the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme. Those aged 75 or older can request a kit by contacting the NHS bowel cancer screening helpline.

Thousands more over 50s will be sent a home-testing kit that can help to detect signs of bowel cancer, as the NHS expands its screening programme in England. Around 850,000 more people will now be ...

Bowel cancer screening is being rolled out to the over 50s by the NHS. Health officials have announced that the delivery of home tests will reach those aged 50 this year, in the final phase of the ...

Their hope is that this brief check at the top of each year could one day prove life-saving. With NHS screening for bowel ...

Bowel cancer is the fourth most common form of cancer in the UK, with over 42,000 people being diagnosed with the disease ...

THE NHS is lowering the bowel cancer screening age from 60 to 50 in a massive win for campaigner Dame Deborah James. The £16million Bowelbabe fundraiser, and The Sun, led calls for the change ...

IN A huge win for Dame Deborah James, the NHS announced it has lowered the bowel cancer screening age in England from 60 to 50. After the mum-of-two was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer in ...

This initiative aims to detect early signs of bowel cancer, potentially saving thousands of lives in England. People aged 50 and 52 in areas including East Lancashire will start receiving a home ...

Steve Russell, national director for vaccinations and screening at NHS England, said: "Lives are saved when cancers are caught early and the expansion of the NHS bowel cancer screening programme ...

Thousands more over 50s will be sent a home-testing kit that can help to detect signs of bowel cancer, as the NHS expands its screening programme in England. Around 850,000 more people will now be ...

The NHS is lowering the bowel cancer screening age from 60 to 50 in a huge win for campaigner Dame Deborah James, reports claim. Dame James' mother Heather, 67, said Debs would be “grinning from ...