The NHS in England is improving the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening in a bid to pick up thousands more cases that could ...

Thousands of people will be saved from bowel cancer under changes to the national screening programme, health officials have said.

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 ...

The adjustment is projected to identify an additional 600 bowel cancer cases early each year, marking an 11 per cent increase ...

Increased sensitivity of test that detects the second deadliest cancer will save hundreds of lives, oncologists say ...

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NHS England lowers bowel cancer FIT test threshold from 120 to 80 micrograms, set to detect 600 more early cancers yearly.

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NHS England is lowering the threshold used in the FIT bowel cancer screening test, increasing its sensitivity. By 2028, the ...

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