The NHS offers bowel cancer screening to people aged 60 to 74 years. In addition, the NHS will also start to call people in their 50s as the programme expands!

You are invited to do a stool test every 2 years, and are sent a testing kit in the post.

The test is to detect bowel cancer when it is at an early stage, in people with no symptoms.

By detecting cancer, we know treatment is more likely to be effective.

If you have done the test before, you are encouraged to still do further tests every 2 years - regular bowel cancer screening reduces the risk of dying from bowel cancer.

Benefits of bowel cancer screening:

• reduces your risk of dying from bowel cancer by at least 25%
• can be completed at home in private
• the test does not hurt, and is quick and easy
• your information will always remain confidential

For more information, call the free helpline on 0800 7076060