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 ...

Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

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

Jeff Smith was dumbfounded when he received a colon cancer screening kit in the mail. The 68-year-old Minnesota man hadn't asked for the Cologuard test, and his doctor hadn't mentioned anything about ...

Health insurance companies send all kinds of things in the mail: brochures about benefits, branded items such as coasters and duffel bags, and reminders to get certain health tests done. Some have ...

An NHS doctor has claimed people could "prevent" some cancer cases from occurring by signing up for a simple at-home test.

NHS bowel cancer screening has now tested nearly 85million people for the disease and uptake has soared with the help of Sun ...

“There’s a whole host of symptoms, but the problem is that they all cross over with other less serious problems, such as ...

Thousands more people would take part in bowel cancer screening if the kit included extras, such as gloves and "poo catchers", according to a Cancer Research UK study published today (Wednesday) in ...

A mother of two is urging people to take part in bowel cancer screening after an at-home test led her to get treatment.