Guidance

Bowel cancer screening: pathology guidance on reporting lesions

This document sets out the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme's (BCSP) pathology guidelines for reporting lesions.

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This publication was previously published by Public Health England, which closed on 30 September 2021.

This publication explains how to report lesions as part of bowel cancer screening.

It sets out practical guidelines, and includes information about:

  • dissection of submitted lesions
  • key diagnostic features
  • adenocarcinoma

Updates to this page

Published 1 September 2007
Last updated 4 October 2024 + show all updates
  1. Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.

  2. Updated entire document and removed the section on villousness.

  3. There have been substantial changes to this updated guidance.

  4. First published.

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