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 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 ...

Steve Russell, national director for vaccinations and screening at NHS England, said: “Lives are saved when cancers are ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

All 50-74-year-olds in England will now receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years. NHS England has been ...

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 ...

This means everyone in England aged 50 to 74 will eventually be offered a home-screening test to help detect bowel cancer. The faecal immunochemical test (FIT) checks for blood in a stool sample, with ...

In England, two versions of a direct mail were sent out 2-3 days after the NHS bowel screening kit. The first was a Cancer Research UK endorsement letter sent to first time invitees to bowel screening ...