Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) The NHS is urging millions of people in England who have been sent a home testing kit for bowel cancer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NHS England / SWNS) A ‘fit and healthy’ father says taking a bowel cancer screening test that dropped on his doorstep was like a ...

People have been urged to take up their offer of bowel cancer screening after a new study found the programme has helped to cut the number of cases of cancer. Almost a third of people eligible for ...

NHS England is set to significantly enhance its bowel cancer screening programme, aiming to detect thousands more cases at an earlier, more treatable stage. From next month, the national health ...

Hundreds of thousands more people will be sent a bowel cancer home-testing kit as the NHS marked the final step in making screening available to everyone aged 50 to 74 years old. People aged 50 and 52 ...

Those who are eligible for receiving bowel cancer screening kits at home have been urged to carry out the free test as a recent study found the scheme has so far been successful. It comes as almost a ...

Cancer screening for UK's second deadliest cancer is undergoing some changes, as NHS UK lowers the threshold of bowel cancer test. What it means is that NHS England is lowering the threshold of the ...

England’s National Health Service’s (NHS') fecal immunochemical test (FIT) has reduced referrals for suspected bowel cancer by 140,000, while the number of cancer cases has remained stable. This shows ...

National awareness days and months play an important role in highlighting the quieter risk signs we may forget to watch out ...

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) ...