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

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

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

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

England’s bowel cancer screening programme is being updated to improve test accuracy, helping doctors identify cancer sooner ...

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 lowers bowel cancer FIT test threshold from 120 to 80 micrograms, set to detect 600 more early cancers yearly.

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

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

NHS England is lowering the threshold used in the FIT bowel cancer screening test, increasing its sensitivity. By 2028, the ...

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

In a significant update, the National Health Service in England is set to enhance early diagnosis of bowel cancer by making ...