Bowel cancer screening

Cancer screening means looking for signs of cancer in healthy people. The idea is to find cancers before they have started to cause any symptoms. This means treatment can be started early. Bowel cancer is a serious condition, but there are good treatments. Treatment is most likely to work if the disease is found at an early stage. If you are worried about bowel cancer, you might want to have a screening test. Regular screening is now recommended in most of the UK for men and women over 60.