A major change to the bowel cancer screening test is helping to prevent bowel cancer cases in the Black Country with early results showing an increase in people taking up the checks.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has been piloting a more sensitive approach to bowel cancer screening, known as FIT@80, which launched in April 2024. Since its introduction, there has been a 35 per ...

NHS England said it will lower the detection threshold for its home-screening kit from next month, making thousands more ...

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

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