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

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) ...

The adjustment is projected to identify an additional 600 bowel cancer cases early each year, marking an 11 per cent increase ...

A personal trainer has shared how a simple NHS test saved his life. Ivan Corsby thought he was "fit and healthy" but actually ...

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

A major change to the bowel cancer screening test is helping to prevent bowel cancer cases in the Black Country with early ...

Increased sensitivity of test that detects the second deadliest cancer will save hundreds of lives, oncologists say ...

Bowel cancer will be diagnosed earlier or even prevented, as part of NHS plans to increase the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening. NHS England has announced it is to lower the threshold for a ...