NHS England is to rollout bowel cancer home test kits to all people aged 58 and over as part of a major expansion of their bowel disease prevention programme.
Each year, 43,000 Brits are diagnosed with bowel cancer- the UK's third deadliest cancer.
This means that roughly 830,000 Brits will be sent a Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) which can detect tiny amounts of blood in stool samples, allowing doctors to identify and treat bowel cancers at their earliest and most treatable stages.
