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

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

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

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

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

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

You can now investigate your health worries from home, using DIY testing kits that claim to screen for a range of conditions ...

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 ...

NHS England is to lower the detection threshold for a home screening kit to trigger bowel cancer screening from next month in a move it says will lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment for thousands ...

NHS England said it will lower the detection threshold for its home-screening kit from next month, making thousands more ...

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

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