A 90-SECOND bowel test will spare 600,000 Britons uncomfortable colonoscopies, inventors say. The OriCol swab check is ...

The NHS has issued a warning to the public, urging them not to delay an essential cancer test that could detect early signs of a lethal disease. This at-home screening can catch symptoms of bowel ...

A new project is aiming to speed up bowel cancer diagnosis. The pilot scheme is underway in Greater Glasgow and Clyde as part ...

More than 800,000 more people in England are to be invited to do at-home checks for bowel cancer, NHS officials have said. NHS England said that adults over the age of 54 are to be sent at-home ...

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 ...

The NHS has encouraged people to complete a crucial cancer screening, emphasising "don't put it off". This straightforward test can identify signs of a fatal illness before other symptoms emerge. In a ...

Colorectal neoplasia causes bleeding, enabling detection using Faecal Occult Blood tests (FOBt). The National Health Service (NHS) Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) guaiac-based FOBt (gFOBt) ...

From 2013, once-only flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) at age 55 is being phased into the England National Health Service Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (NHSBCSP), augmenting biennial guaiac faecal occult ...

Thousands more people would take part in bowel cancer screening if the kit included extras, such as gloves and “poo catchers”, according to a UK study. Thousands more people would take part in bowel ...

What are the current uptake rates for bowel cancer screening and how do they vary across the UK? The most recent complete data for England (2014/15) shows an average uptake of the guaiac Faecal Occult ...