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Bowel Cancer Awareness

Your next poo could save your life. Just a tiny sample detects signs of bowel cancer before you notice anything wrong.

If you’re sent an NHS bowel cancer screening kit, put it by the loo. Don’t put it off. Detecting bowel cancer at the earliest stage makes you up to 9 times more likely to be successfully treated. The NHS bowel cancer screening kit detects signs of cancer before you notice anything wrong. In the UK, every 30 minutes, someone dies from bowel cancer.

The Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) kit is available through the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme to everyone aged 56 to 74 and is expanding to include all over 50s. People aged 75 and over can request a kit by phoning the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening helpline on-0800 707 60 60.