NHS bowel cancer screening home test, which checks if you could have bowel cancer. People who are the right age are sent a free NHS FIT (Faecal Immunochemical Test) kit every two years. You use it to collect a small sample of poo and post it back to an NHS lab.
Screening can help prevent bowel cancer and find it at an early stage when it’s easier to treat. People who complete their screening are 25% less likely to die of bowel cancer.
The kits are for people with no symptoms and most people get the all-clear. If you are aged 56, 58 (on or after 16 May 2022) or 60 to 74 and we have your correct address, you will be sent a kit every 2 years. Please use it. By April 2025, bowel cancer screening kits will be for everyone aged 50 to 74 in England.
To find out more and hear from other Londoners about their experience of bowel cancer screening, visit www.healthylondon.org/bcs.
Bowel Cancer Screening
NHS bowel cancer screening checks if you could have bowel cancer. It’s available to everyone aged 60 to 74 years.
Website: www.nhs.uk/bowel-cancer-screening
Breast Screening
NHS breast screening checks use X-rays to look for cancers that are too small to see or feel.
Website: www.nhs.uk/breast-screening-mammogram
St. George’s University hospital Breast Screening (South West London Breast Screening)
National Breast Screening Programme, providing a free breast screening service for women resident in London and West Hertfordshire
Website: https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/service/the-rose-centre/cancer-screening/All Telephone: 020 3758 2024, 020 8725 2724, 020 8725 2725
NHS Cervical Screening
Website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/cervical-screening
