A “HOLY grail” blood test can pick up cancer cases with 84 per cent accuracy – even among patients who have been falsely ...

All 50 to 74-year-olds in England will receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years, as the NHS expands its lifesaving screening programme. The age is now being lowered from 54 to 50 ...

That’s the message from a new bowel screening campaign across St Helens, encouraging people to complete the at-home test kit sent by the NHS every two years. The Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) ...

A ‘fit and healthy’ father says taking a bowel cancer screening test that dropped on his doorstep was like a “winning lottery ticket” after it saved his life. Steve Hollington, 58, was diagnosed with ...

Research published in the journal BMJ Open in May found that an annual blood test for cancer could lead to 49 per cent fewer ...

The NHS has highlighted a free testing kit which can detect bowel cancer before any symptoms show - and revealed that is going to be offered to a wider variety of ages. Bowel cancer is potentially ...

THE march of AI now seems unstoppable in every part of our lives, from choosing the TV we watch to making our trains run on ...

In England, 37 people die each day from bowel cancer, but screening using faecal blood testing followed by a colonoscopy can reduce both the incidence of this cancer and the number of resulting deaths ...