Brits born between two dates will be sent a kit to test for a potentially deadly disease. The NHS offers at-home testing kits for bowel cancer, for people of a certain age. To carry out the test, you ...

MILLIONS more people are benefiting from life-saving bowel screening compared to a decade ago – according to the NHS. Almost ...

The kit, known as the faecal immunochemical test (FIT), checks for blood in a small stool sample, which can be a sign of bowel cancer. FIT kits are used at home by putting a poo sample in a small tube ...

The call comes as the NHS bowel cancer screening programme marks its 20th anniversary during Bowel Cancer Awareness Month ...

An NHS doctor has suggested that signing up for a free at-home test could help "prevent" certain cancer cases from developing ...