A “HOLY grail” blood test can pick up cancer cases with 84 per cent accuracy – even among patients who have been falsely ...

All 50 to 74-year-olds in England will receive a home-testing kit for bowel cancer every two years, as the NHS expands its lifesaving screening programme. The age is now being lowered from 54 to 50 ...

NHS Launches major campaign in London to increase awareness of the symptoms of bowel cancer and increase bowel cancer screening ...

In England, 37 people die each day from bowel cancer, but screening using faecal blood testing followed by a colonoscopy can reduce both the incidence of this cancer and the number of resulting deaths ...

That’s the message from a new bowel screening campaign across St Helens, encouraging people to complete the at-home test kit sent by the NHS every two years. The Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) ...

SCREENING men for prostate cancer could slash deaths by 13 per cent, saving thousands of lives a year, a study suggests.

The NHS has issued a warning to the public, urging them not to delay an essential cancer test that could detect early signs of a lethal disease. This at-home screening can catch symptoms of bowel ...

Prostate cancer screening for over-50s would save thousands of lives, experts have claimed as the UK decides whether or not ...

Prostate cancer screening could prevent around 1,500 deaths a year in the UK, research suggests. A European trial, one of the ...

After screening 72,000 men, researchers found that one death from prostate cancer was prevented for every 456 men who were ...

Dr Ian Walker, executive director of policy at Cancer Research UK, said: “While this long-running study suggests that screening using the PSA test could help reduce deaths from prostate cancer, it ...