Around 1,100 people in England could miss out on the chance of an early stage bowel cancer diagnosis through screening each year because of NHS staff shortages, according to new calculations released ...
The NHS in England is improving the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening in a bid to pick up thousands more cases that could ...
Major change to bowel cancer screening as thousands more to be tested - The NHS aims to detect thousands more bowel cancer ...
Thousands of cases of bowel cancer will be diagnosed earlier – or prevented altogether – under major NHS plans to increase the s ...
A colonoscopy is a telescopic and visual examination of the colon and rectum. It helps doctors detect abnormalities in the bowel, including signs of colorectal cancer, polyps, unexplained diarrhea, ...
The faecal immunochemical test (FIT) is replacing the guaiac faecal occult blood test in colorectal cancer screening. Increased uptake and FIT positivity will challenge colonoscopy services. We ...
NHS England lowers bowel cancer FIT test threshold from 120 to 80 micrograms, set to detect 600 more early cancers yearly.
Experts say more cancers will be detected at an earlier stage when treatment is more likely to be successful ...
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