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NHS England is to lower the detection threshold for a home screening kit to trigger bowel cancer screening from next month in a move it says will lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment for thousands ...

The adjustment is projected to identify an additional 600 bowel cancer cases early each year, marking an 11 per cent increase ...

Experts say more cancers will be detected at an earlier stage when treatment is more likely to be successful ...

Thousands of cases of bowel cancer will be diagnosed earlier – or prevented altogether – under major NHS plans to increase the s ...

The NHS is set to make a significant improvement to England’s main bowel cancer screening test, a move health leaders believe ...

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

A mum, 43, with two young children reveals how she had cancer for years before she was diagnosed and wants to encourage ...

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

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

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 ...

NHS England is set to significantly enhance its bowel cancer screening programme, aiming to detect thousands more cases at an ...