Plain explanations of bowel screening, what the tests measure and what they cannot tell you. No scare stories, no miracle claims.
The five bowel symptoms that warrant an appointment rather than a screening test, and why a normal result can be dangerous when you have them.
Read the articleWhy a test for blood can only find a tumour on a day it bleeds, and what adding KRAS, BRAF and hDNA changes.
Read the articlePosting before a weekend, overfilling, diet, contamination and timing. All avoidable, all worth knowing beforehand.
Read the articleThe factors with real evidence behind them, separated into the ones you can change and the ones you can only plan around.
Read the articleWhich family patterns warrant genetics referral and colonoscopy surveillance, and which need nothing more than ordinary screening.
Read the articleWhy most abnormal results turn out not to be cancer, what colonoscopy involves, and what to do in the meantime.
Read the articleWhat is known about early-onset bowel cancer, what is still uncertain, and what it means if you are in your forties.
Read the articleFree delivery, results in about 10 days, and a doctor who reads anything abnormal.
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