The NHS in England is improving the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening in a bid to pick up thousands more cases that could ...
By reducing the level at which traces of blood in a FIT test trigger further investigation – from 120 micrograms of blood per gram of poo down to 80 – the NHS will offer 35% more screening ...
NHS England lowers bowel cancer FIT test threshold from 120 to 80 micrograms, set to detect 600 more early cancers yearly.
Thousands of people will be saved from bowel cancer under changes to the national screening programme, health officials have said.
The adjustment is projected to identify an additional 600 bowel cancer cases early each year, marking an 11 per cent increase ...
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) ...
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