Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK.
The NHS bowel cancer screening kit can save your life. People the right age are sent a free FIT test every 2 years, this kit detects signs of cancer before you notice anything wrong. Detecting bowel cancer at the earliest stage makes you up to 9 times more likely to be successfully treated.
The NHS bowel cancer screening kit can save your life. People the right age are sent a free FIT test every 2 years, this kit detects signs of cancer before you notice anything wrong. Detecting bowel cancer at the earliest stage makes you up to 9 times more likely to be successfully treated.
Early diagnosis is the key factor as to why fewer people are dying in recent decades, Yet almost one third of people who were sent an NHS bowel cancer screening kit in England last year did not go on to complete it.
The kit is quick and easy to complete and can be done in the privacy of your own bathroom using the step-by-step instructions. You only need to collect one tiny sample of poo using the plastic stick provided, pop it in the sample bottle and post it for free, to be tested. If something is found, you will be invited to have further tests, usually at a hospital.
The test checks for traces of blood, which could be a sign of bowel cancer, but also for piles or polyps.
So if you’re sent the kit, Don’t put it off.
