Bowel Cancer: Screening

(asked on 27th June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the quantitive faecal immunochemical test will be available on the NHS as a DIY procedure.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 4th July 2017

Faecal Immunochemical Testing will replace the original Faecal Occult Blood test as the first line test in bowel cancer screening in April 2018. Men and women aged 60 will be sent the self-sampling kit, requiring only one sample instead of three, to be used in the privacy of their own home.

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