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 adjustment is projected to identify an additional 600 bowel cancer cases early each year, marking an 11 per cent increase ...
Thousands of people will be saved from bowel cancer under changes to the national screening programme, health officials have said.
In 2023-24 the NHS sent a kit to almost 7 million people ...
MORE than half of people invited to take a new bowel cancer screening test didn't take up the opportunity - even though it could stop them developing or dying from the disease, according to a Cancer ...
Experts say more cancers will be detected at an earlier stage when treatment is more likely to be successful ...