Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) The NHS is urging millions of people in England who have been sent a home testing kit for bowel cancer ...

The latest NHS data shows only 56.2% of 54-year-olds completed their home screening test between April 2024 and March 2025, compared with 73.5% of people aged 70 to 74. Millions of people in their 50s ...

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The number of Britons in their 50s who take part in bowel cancer screening remains critically low, the NHS has warned. New figures reveal that just over half of 54-year-olds (56%) completed the ...

Those who are eligible for receiving bowel cancer screening kits at home have been urged to carry out the free test as a recent study found the scheme has so far been successful. It comes as almost a ...

Researchers say their findings 'support efforts to increase screening uptake' for the disease that kills 17,000 Britons every ...

MILLIONS of Brits are forgetting to complete lifesaving bowel cancer screening tests, health chiefs warn. The NHS sends free home testing kits that check for traces of blood in poo to everyone aged 50 ...

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The NHS is urging millions of people in England who have been sent a home testing kit for bowel cancer to use it and return it. Every month, half a million free Faecal Immunichemical Test kits (FIT) ...