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 move could help to save lives by detecting cases earlier, health bosses say.

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 be prevented or caught early.

Major change to bowel cancer screening as thousands more to be tested - The NHS aims to detect thousands more bowel cancer cases at an earlier stage ...

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) ...

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

The FIT test is a non-invasive test that detects hidden blood in poo, which can be an early sign of bowel cancer. After the ...

Once fully rolled out, testing at the lower threshold is expected to reduce late-stage diagnoses and deaths from bowel cancer ...

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

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