NHS bowel cancer tests will be fine-tuned to spot tumours earlier. Health service labs will increase the sensitivity of the ...

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

NHS bowel cancer tests will be fine-tuned to spot more tumours early as part of a faster diagnosis drive. It is another win ...

Patients will be able to find out whether they have genes linked to cancer using a world-leading tool developed by the NHS.

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

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 ...

In a significant update, the National Health Service in England is set to enhance early diagnosis of bowel cancer by making ...

NHS England will collect patient information on 100 genes linked to an increased risk of cancer, in a bid to identify those ...

The new rules come into force in England next month ...

NHS England lowers bowel cancer FIT test threshold from 120 to 80 micrograms, set to detect 600 more early cancers yearly.

In 2023-24 the NHS sent a kit to almost 7 million people ...

Major change to bowel cancer screening as thousands more to be tested - The NHS aims to detect thousands more bowel cancer ...