jun 21, 2006 - NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme launched
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The NHS bowel cancer screening programme is one of the first national bowel screening programmes in the world, and the first cancer screening programme in England to include men as well as women.
All men and women aged 60 to 69 are expected to be included by December 2009, meaning around 2 million men and women will be screened and an estimated 3,000 cancers detected every year.
Today, all men and women aged 60 to 74 are invited to carry out a faecal occult blood (FOB) test at home. An additional one-off test called bowel scope screening is gradually being introduced in England. This is offered to men and women at the age of 55. As of March 2015, about two-thirds of screening centres were beginning to offer this test to 55-year-olds.
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