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New NHS home testing kit makes checking for bowel cancer easier than ever

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People in Greater Manchester who have been sent a lifesaving home testing kit that can detect early signs of bowel cancer are being encouraged to use it and return it, as part of a new, first of a kind NHS campaign.

The national campaign aims to increase uptake of the home testing kit to ensure more people are diagnosed with bowel cancer at the earliest stage, when they’re nine times more likely to survive.

Latest data shows the proportion of people choosing to participate in bowel screening has increased to 70.3% – the highest on record.

However, 30% of people aren’t returning their test kit. Each month, the NHS posts out more than half a million free Faecal Immunochemical Test kits (FIT) to people to use in the privacy of their homes.

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