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 ...

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 doesn’t offer bowel screening until we’re 50. Yet with cancer rates rising, it may be worth forking out for a private ...

People are being urged not to be "squeamish" and to make use of a home-testing kit for bowel cancer when it arrives in the ...

The NHS expands the bowel screening programme to include people aged 50-54, aiming for earlier cancer detection and improved survival rates.

NHS England announced earlier this ... which can then be removed in a colonoscopy. "So screening can actually help prevent bowel cancer, not just detect it," she added. If people are affected ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With rates of the disease rising in the under 50s, a group of friends have started an unusual annual tradition that they hope ...

To mark World Cancer Day on Tuesday, 4 February, a series of pop-up cancer conversation shops are taking place across the ...

Dame Deborah James will be 'up there grinning from ear to ear' after the NHS announced it would drop the bowel cancer screening age from 60. The campaigner, who passed away from the illness in ...