Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) The NHS is urging millions of people in England who have been sent a home testing kit for bowel cancer ...

Hundreds of thousands more people will be sent a bowel cancer home-testing kit as the NHS marked the final step in making screening available to everyone aged 50 to 74 years old. People aged 50 and 52 ...

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 ...

Despite Australia and New Zealand having one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world, most Australians are either not having the right type of bowel cancer screening or not having any ...

NHS England said it will lower the detection threshold for the home-screening stool kit from next month, bringing it into line with what already happens in Scotland and Wales. The move means thousands ...

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. NHS England said it will lower the detection ...

NHS England is overhauling its screening method, as the threshold for further investigation after a faecal immunochemical ...

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) ...

NHS England is set to significantly enhance its bowel cancer screening programme, aiming to detect thousands more cases at an earlier, more treatable stage. From next month, the national health ...