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How to use the home test kit. The NHS bowel cancer screening kit used in England is the faecal immunochemical test kit – known as the FIT kit. You collect a small sample of poo on a small plastic stick and put it into the sample bottle and post it to a lab for testing. There are instructions that come with the kit.
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Your guide to the FIT bowel cancer screening test. FIT stands for faecal immunochemical test. It looks for tiny traces of blood in the poo which can be a sig...
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We send you an invitation letter with information about bowel cancer screening. The information is to help you decide whether to take part. Then we send you a faecal immunochemical test, or...
Sep 27, 2022 · A short animation that explains how to use the FIT kit is available in English, British Sign Language and subtitled versions in English and 10 other languages. Write the date on the sample...
- What Is Screening?
- Who Can Have Bowel Screening
- The Bowel Cancer Screening Test
- Getting Your Results
- Possible Benefits and Risks of Bowel Cancer Screening
- Screening For People at Higher Risk
- Be Clear on Cancer
- Jan's Story
For screening to be useful the tests need to: 1. be reliable at picking up cancers or abnormalities that could lead to cancer 2. do more good than harm to people taking part 3. be something that people are willing to do Screening tests are not perfect and have some risks. The screening programme should also be good value for money for the NHS.
The screening programmes send a bowel cancer testing kit every 2 years to people eligible to take part. You need to be registered with a GP to receive your screening invitations. There are separate bowel screening programmes for the different countries in the UK.
The bowel cancer screening test is called the faecal immunochemical test (FIT). The FIT looks for tiny traces of blood in the sample of poo which can be a sign of bowel cancer.
About 2 weeks after your test, you will get a letter with your results. Most people receive a letter that says ‘no further tests needed at this time’. This doesn’t completely rule out cancer. So it’s important to know your body and what is normal for you. See your GP if you have changes that don’t go away. If your letter says ‘further tests needed’...
Possible benefits
Bowel cancer screening saves lives. It aims to prevent and detect cancer at an early stage when treatment is more likely to work.
Risks
This means that the test picks up something even though the person doesn't have cancer. This can cause anxiety and lead to further tests. Rarely, screening tests miss a cancer. It is important to know the symptoms of bowel cancer and see your GP if you have any symptoms. There is a small chance that some people may be diagnosed and treated for bowel growths that would not have caused any harm.
Bowel screening works well at reducing deaths from bowel cancer in people in their 50s, 60s and early 70s. As bowel cancer is rare in younger people, screening them is not useful. Some people can have regular screening at an earlier age, if they have certain conditions that increase their risk of bowel cancer.
Be Clear On Cancer bowel screening campaign aims to encourage people to do the bowel screening test.
This is Jan's story about her diagnosis and treatment for bowel cancer. "I had done the test many times before. Unlike the other times the result that came back was not good. I have had surgery ….it was successfully removed. So no further treatment required." 1. Read Jan's story about her diagnosis and treatment
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Apr 1, 2013 · Instructions on how to use the home test kit provided by the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP). From: Public Health England. Published. 1 April 2013. Last updated. 27...
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Instructions come with the kit and are on the gov.uk website: Bowel cancer screening kit: how to use. What the results mean. Most people (98 percent) who complete the FIT test will receive a ' normal ' result. A normal result means there was no blood detected.
