You usually have a number of tests to check for bowel cancer. The tests you may have include: a test that looks for blood in your poo. This is a Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) looking at the whole ...
Happy National Exercise Day! This week we’re writing about simple fitness and cancer testing, and we’ve got our weekly “joy” snack. But before that … National exercise guidelines can be ...
Bowel screening aims to find cancer early or to find changes in your bowel that could lead to cancer. How often do you have it? People who can take part receive a bowel cancer testing kit every 2 ...
Advertisement The kit, a fecal immunochemical test (FIT), uses antibodies to detect blood in stool. This blood is an early warning sign of colon cancer, and those who test positive are urged to ...
A Scots man who felt 'too fit' to worry about cancer was dealt a devastating diagnosis two years after he threw away his bowel screening kit. Craig Allen has told how he felt 'numb' when doctors ...
In most cases it won’t be cancer, but if it is, spotting it early can make a real difference.” FIT (faecal immunochemical test) that looks for tiny traces of blood in a sample of faeces ...