Introduction In 2019, the national bowel cancer screening programme (BCSP) switched its home stool test kit from a six windowed guaiac faecal occult blood test (FOBt), to a single sample ...

More people will soon be receiving home screening kits as part of NHS plans to increase earlier diagnosis of bowel cancer ...

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 undergo a ...

Anyone aged 75 and over can request a kit by phone at the NHS bowel cancer screening helpline at 0800 707 60 60. The faecal immunochemical test (FIT) checks for blood in a stool sample ...

"It shows how important it is to do your stool test when it comes through the post ... the NHS says But less than 60% of 54-57-year-olds return their Fit kits, compared with more than 70% of ...