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

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

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

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

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

Thousands of people could be saved from bowel cancer thanks to a major change to the NHS screening programme announced today.

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 ...

Experts say more cancers will be detected at an earlier stage when treatment is more likely to be successful ...

The NHS is set to make a significant improvement to England’s main bowel cancer screening test, a move health leaders believe ...

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

Thousands of cases of bowel cancer will be diagnosed earlier – or prevented altogether – under major NHS plans to increase the s ...