By reducing the level at which traces of blood in a FIT test trigger further investigation – from 120 micrograms of blood per gram of poo down to 80 – the NHS will offer 35% more screening ...

The National Health Service (NHS) has expanded its life-saving screening programme in England by rolling out home testing kits to hundreds of thousands of individuals aged 50 years to detect signs of ...

The NHS in England is improving the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening in a bid to pick up thousands more cases that could ...

The NHS is urging millions of people in England who have been sent a home testing kit for bowel cancer to use it and return it. Every month, half a million free Faecal Immunichemical Test kits (FIT) ...

Once fully rolled out, testing at the lower threshold is expected to reduce late-stage diagnoses and deaths from bowel cancer ...

Thousands of people will be saved from bowel cancer under changes to the national screening programme, health officials have said.

NHS England is set to significantly enhance its bowel cancer screening programme, aiming to detect thousands more cases at an ...

John Crouchley lost about 5st (32kg) after experiencing digestive problems, before his diagnosis.

The NHS emphasised: "Ivan shares how the simple test saved his life." In the interview, Ivan recounted receiving his kit on ...

A major change to the bowel cancer screening test is helping to prevent bowel cancer cases in the Black Country with early results showing an increase in people taking up the checks.

In a drive to increase home bowel cancer screening the NHS is asking people to "Put it by the loo. Don’t put it off". Nearly 43,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer every year in the UK, and it ...