The NHS bowel cancer screening kit can save your life

Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK. Yet the latest data showed that one third of
people who were sent an NHS bowel cancer screening kit in England last year did not go on to
complete it.

Detecting bowel cancer at the earliest stage makes you up to 9 times more likely to be successfully
treated.

The NHS bowel cancer screening kit detects signs of cancer before you notice anything wrong.

If you’re aged 56 to 74 and registered with a GP in England, you’ll be sent a kit in the post automatically,
every two years.

If you’re sent the kit, help yourself by remembering to complete it. Put it by the loo. Don’t put it off.