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NHS to change bowel screening in bid to pick up thousands more cases that could be detected earlier

The NHS in England is improving the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening in a bid to pick up thousands more cases that could ...
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NHS to detect and prevent thousands more bowel cancers with more sensitive screening

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 ...

Bowel cancer screening changes will save thousands of lives

Thousands of people will be saved from bowel cancer under changes to the national screening programme, health officials have said.
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NHS rolls out bowel cancer screening kits to people aged over 50

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 ...

NHS bowel cancer screening shake-up in a bid to catch cases earlier

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

NHS cancer screenings you’re eligible for and how to request a test

The NHS cancer screenings you’re eligible for – and how to request a test - Eligibility for these vital NHS health checks ...

Vital cancer screening could be done at home as NHS rolls out ‘self-sample’

The screening can be potentially life-saving but over five million women eligible for it are missing out ...