Bowel cancer screening using a home kit called a faecal immunochemical test (FIT) is currently available for those aged 54 to ...

Health minister Andrew Gwynne said the NHS was pressing ahead with a tapered reduction in the age people could test for the illness in the new year. Bowel cancer screening using a home kit called ...

People are three times more likely to undergo at-home colon cancer screening if they're provided a free test, a new study says. About 30% of patients mailed a free stool test kit completed their ...

A MAN who found himself short of breath while out walking was diagnosed with killer bowel cancer – but not before having to ...

While bowel cancer – or colorectal cancer – has traditionally been more common in people over the age of 50, cases in the ...

THE FESTIVE season is all about spending time with loved ones, celebrations and, of course, overindulgence. With the average ...

50 million Americans due for colon cancer screening avoid it because ... the paperwork required to receive an at-home stool-based screening test. When Dennis saw his doctor recently — still ...

One of Nova Scotia's cancer screening strategies may be getting revamped thanks to students at NSCAD University in Halifax. Nova Scotia's colorectal cancer screening program sends kits to all Nova ...

New Study Shows at-Home Colon Cancer Screening Test Reduces Risk of Colorectal Cancer Death, as Effective as Screening Colonoscopy July 25, 2024 — A noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test ...

Nova Scotia's colorectal cancer screening program sends kits to ... using the test. She found it wasn't easy to use. Collecting a sample involves putting a piece of paper on the toilet and then ...

The Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) is a test conducted at home, where people ... out of 100 people who use the kit ...